{"id":2661,"date":"2014-10-16T08:02:25","date_gmt":"2014-10-16T08:02:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=2661"},"modified":"2014-10-16T08:02:25","modified_gmt":"2014-10-16T08:02:25","slug":"nff-fires-keshi-amodu-shuaibu-steps-in-as-replacement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=2661","title":{"rendered":"NFF fires Keshi, Amodu Shuaibu steps in as replacement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/kesh.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2663\" alt=\"kesh\" src=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/kesh.jpg\" width=\"238\" height=\"212\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Nigeria Football Federation(NFF) has fired Stephen Keshi as coach of the Super Eagles national team.<\/p>\n<p>After an emergency meeting by the new executives of the NFF led by Amaju Pinncik late on Wednesday night, the board decided that they no longer want to continue with him as their coach.<\/p>\n<p>Keshi, his assistants, Ike Shorounmu and Daniel Amokachi have been asked to proceed on any foreign course of their choice to be sponsored by the NFF.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile Amodu Shuaibu has been drafted by the NFF to take temporal charge of the Super Eagles for the remaining two qualifiers against Congo and South Africa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Nigeria Football Federation(NFF) has fired Stephen Keshi as coach of the Super Eagles national team. After an emergency meeting by the new executives of the NFF led by Amaju Pinncik late on Wednesday night, the board decided that they no longer want to continue with him as their coach. Keshi, his assistants, Ike Shorounmu [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2663,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/kesh.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4oswh-GV","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2661"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2661\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2664,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2661\/revisions\/2664"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}