October 2 – Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) General Secretary Musa Amadu (pictured) told lawmakers on Sunday that the federation has been unable to move into its new headquarters because of a cash crisis.
Sunday Dankaro House was officially opened on 18 July this year, but Amadu told members of the House of Representatives Committee on Sports that “Last year, we made a case to be given a capital N144 million to be used to furnish our new headquarters,” he said. “The PTF [Presidential Task Force] graciously gave us a new football house which was commissioned in July.
“It has been well over two months and we have not been able to move a single chair into the building because it is a brand new one.
“We were surprised that not a single penny was voted for capital in the Federation’s 2013 budget.
“So as much as we want to move into our new football house and conduct our business, we are constrained by resources.”
Amadu also disclosed that the problem was partially due to the failure of an (unnamed) sponsor to pay their dues saying, “We do generate funds, but we also have challenges in those areas because as we speak now, a particular major sponsor of our national teams, always associating with our programmes, has not paid its sponsorship fees.”
“We are scratching our heads on daily basis on how we are going to travel to Ethiopia and the United Arab Emirates, to play our matches.”
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