Breaking: Nigeria Coach Oliseh Resigns

Sunday Oliseh has resigned as coach of Nigerian national football team (super eagles) after claiming everything is being done by the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) to sabotage him ahead of next month’s
crucial AFCON qualifiers against Egypt.

Nigeria will host seventh the time African champions and group leaders Egypt on March 25 in Kaduna before a reverse fixture days later in Egypt with only the group winners guaranteed automatic passage to the final tournament in Gabon in January 2017.

Oliseh complained that everything was being done for him to fail against Egypt so he could be made a scape goat.

“His resignation letter was addressed to NFF president Amaju Pinnick and he copied principal officials like the general secretary and the two vice-presidents.

“He also spoke on the phone with the sports minister.”

He is owed four months’ salary and a promised accommodation in the nation’s capital of Abuja has yet to be redeemed.

It was also understood that he was very unhappy over the dismissal of his personal assistant and former international Tijjani Babangida and he was equally not pleased with rumours that the NFF approached former Cote d’Ivoire coach Herve Renard to take over the Super Eagles. Renard has since been appointed coach of Morocco.

Nigerian sports minister Solomon Dalung waded into the crisis when he advised the NFF against sacking the coach.