Nigeria’s football federation chief resigns amid corruption allegations

After Gusau’s resignation, President Bola Tinubu’s bureau says helium has ordered ‘comprehensive reform’ of the country’s shot administration.

The president of the Nigeria Football Federation has stepped down amid corruption allegations and a drawstring of disappointing results by the country’s nationalist teams.

Ibrahim Musa Gusau’s announcement connected Thursday came a period earlier the federation is owed to clasp its adjacent wide election.

Several members of the federation’s committee besides stepped down from their positions, section media reported.

“I decided to resign from my presumption arsenic the president of NFF,” Gusau told journalists successful Abuja, adding that helium had “advised” different members of the committee to “also resign”.

Local media reported that the Nigeria Football Federation is nether probe by Nigeria’s concealed police, the Department of State Services, implicit the alleged misuse of 17 cardinal naira (about $12.7m) it received from the authorities successful 2024 to wide a backlog of payments owed to nationalist squad players and officials.

After Gusau’s resignation, Nigerian President Bola Tinubu’s bureau said that helium had ordered a “comprehensive reform” of the country’s shot medication to close the “structural deficits wrong the system”.

“The betterment indispensable respond to a longstanding request to fortify governance, administration, stakeholder representation, improvement pathways, home competitions, and accountability crossed Nigerian football,” Tinubu said successful a connection issued by his media adviser, Bayo Onanuga.

One of Africa’s starring shot nations, Nigeria’s governing assemblage has agelong faced allegations of corruption and mismanagement.

National squad players and coaches person repeatedly protested publically implicit unpaid allowances.

The latest contention followed the Super Falcons’ nonaccomplishment to suffice for the 2027 Women’s World Cup.

The 10-time Women’s Africa Cup of Nations winners crashed out successful the quarterfinals of this year’s tourney earlier losing 2-1 to South Africa successful a World Cup playoff.

The decision means that Nigeria volition miss the planetary tourney for the archetypal clip since it began successful 1991.

The men’s nationalist team, the Super Eagles, besides failed to suffice for the past 2 World Cup tournaments.

Despite resigning, Gusau defended his grounds and blamed the country’s economical hardship and overseas speech volatility for the organisation’s fiscal difficulties.

He besides announced a concern with Adidas that volition supply Nigeria with $4.5 cardinal successful yearly currency payments.