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Nigeria’s 2014 World Cup qualifying matches are to cost the Nigeria Football
Federation (NFF) over 700 million Naira (about $5 million), MTNFootball.com can
report.
This amount, 704,713,760 Naira, is contained in the 2012 budget summary summitted to the House of Representatives by the leadership of the NFF.
The Eagles will kick off the qualifiers for Brazil 2014 at home against Nambia on June 1.
The other teams in their group are Kenya and Malawi.
The Super Eagles 2013 Nations Cup qualifiers will set the country back by another 270,147,180 Naira.
According to the budget proposal made available to MTNFootball.com, the Super Falcons African Women’s Championship qualifiers would gulp 262,813.040 Naira, while the federation would spend another 163,758,400 Naira to feature at the 2012 Africa Women’s Championship in Equatorial Guinea.
General secretary of the football federation, Musa Amadu, while presenting the figures at the House of Representatives’ budget defence, stated that the amount approved was grossly inadequate to run their activities for the year.
"A total of 2,176,796,827 Naira was approved for the 2012 appropriation year. And I must confess this is grossly inadequate with regards to the competitions we would be participating in this year," he stated.
"At the congress in Kaduna, we had estimated a six billion Naira budget but with what is available to us we would have to do our best to ensure that Nigeria gets proper representation."
The football federation budget proposal for 2012 was put at 3,713,090,060 Naira but was slashed to 2,176,796,827 Naira.
This amount, 704,713,760 Naira, is contained in the 2012 budget summary summitted to the House of Representatives by the leadership of the NFF.
The Eagles will kick off the qualifiers for Brazil 2014 at home against Nambia on June 1.
The other teams in their group are Kenya and Malawi.
The Super Eagles 2013 Nations Cup qualifiers will set the country back by another 270,147,180 Naira.
According to the budget proposal made available to MTNFootball.com, the Super Falcons African Women’s Championship qualifiers would gulp 262,813.040 Naira, while the federation would spend another 163,758,400 Naira to feature at the 2012 Africa Women’s Championship in Equatorial Guinea.
General secretary of the football federation, Musa Amadu, while presenting the figures at the House of Representatives’ budget defence, stated that the amount approved was grossly inadequate to run their activities for the year.
"A total of 2,176,796,827 Naira was approved for the 2012 appropriation year. And I must confess this is grossly inadequate with regards to the competitions we would be participating in this year," he stated.
"At the congress in Kaduna, we had estimated a six billion Naira budget but with what is available to us we would have to do our best to ensure that Nigeria gets proper representation."
The football federation budget proposal for 2012 was put at 3,713,090,060 Naira but was slashed to 2,176,796,827 Naira.
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