{"id":3289,"date":"2014-11-26T07:57:38","date_gmt":"2014-11-26T07:57:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=3289"},"modified":"2014-11-26T07:57:38","modified_gmt":"2014-11-26T07:57:38","slug":"crisis-delays-eagles-n1-44bn-world-cup-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=3289","title":{"rendered":"Crisis delays Eagles N1.44bn World Cup money"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"stcpDiv\">\n<div id=\"facebookLike\">\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/super-eagles.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3290\" alt=\"super eagles\" src=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/super-eagles.jpg\" width=\"259\" height=\"194\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div id=\"entryContainer\">\n<div itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<p>Secretary General of the Nigeria Football Federation, \u00a0Musa Amadu, has said Nigeria are yet to receive the nine million dollars prize money they earned at the last World Cup because of the leadership crisis that has bedevilled the country.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe money is ready, but the katakata (crisis) we have had has meant we are yet to access it,\u201d NFF general secretary Amadu disclosed in a radio interview monitored in Abuja yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe believe that once everything is sorted, we will get the cash.\u201d The leadership tussle began soon after the country\u2019s exit at the hands of France in Brazil 2014.<\/p>\n<p>Amadu also said they are very much aware of the $3.8 million advanced to them by the federal government to offset the appearance fee for the players at Brazil and are obliged to refund it once they get the money.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have a memo from the sports ministry reminding us of our obligation to the government and once we get the money, we will pay up,\u201d he said. The Super Eagles reached the knockout stage of the World Cup in Brazil for only the second time in their history.<\/p>\n<div id=\"outbrain_widget_0\" data-dynload=\"\" data-os=\"win32\" data-browser=\"firefox\" data-ob-mark=\"true\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.vanguardngr.com\/2014\/11\/crisis-delays-eagles-n1-44bn-world-cup-money\/\">\n<div><wbr \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Source: Vanguard<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Secretary General of the Nigeria Football Federation, \u00a0Musa Amadu, has said Nigeria are yet to receive the nine million dollars prize money they earned at the last World Cup because of the leadership crisis that has bedevilled the country. \u201cThe money is ready, but the katakata (crisis) we have had has meant we are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3290,"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-3289","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\/11\/super-eagles.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4oswh-R3","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3289","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=3289"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3289\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3291,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3289\/revisions\/3291"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}