Sunday 8 January 2017

FIFA Stops $1.5m Grant To Nigeria

FIFA,  the Football’s world governing body has stopped the annual $ 1.5 million development grant to Nigeria after discovering “traces of corruption” on  how previous funds were spent by the Nigeria

 Football Federation (NFF).AfricanFootball.com reports that FIFA went further to issue the NFF a final warning “to straighten its financial records.”The Nigerian government is now expected to quickly step into this latest development after Sports Minister, Solomon Dalung, first expressed serious misgivings on the back of a FIFA query on how NFF used grants paid the federation.
 

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