A former Super Eagles captain, Christian Chukwu, has revealed that the Nigeria Football Federation still owes him salary from his time as the country’s male senior national team head coach.
Chukwu led the team to a bronze medal at the 2004 Africa Cup of Nations in Tunisia.
He was however relieved of the job in June 2005 during the qualification campaign for the World Cup in Germany.
The former skipper of the then Green Eagles while speaking on why local coaches are not treated well by Nigeria, said he had a better experience managing in Kenya and Lebanon.
“They owe Nigerian coaches. They don’t owe foreign coaches. It is a problem. You take on an indigenous coach who takes a cheap salary, and you owe him,”
“Is it proper? Are you encouraging him to do his job? I am still being owed up to today. They are still owing me till tomorrow. My files are there with the NFF. There is nothing I can do [to get them to pay me]. The file is there. Go to their office, and you will see how much they owe me. Not only me, but other indeginuos coaches are being owed too. Some are late,” the former Enugu Rangers captain told The Althletic Nigeria.
