THE Nigeria Football
Federation (NFF) may have
turned down a request from
the Confederation of African
Football, CAF to bail it out and
host the 2017 edition of the
African U-17 Championship.
CAF had last week stripped
Madagascar of the right to
host the championship even
as it had not made any
concrete arrangement for
another host.
A reliable source at the NFF
informed Sports Vanguard in
Abuja that on Monday the
federation received a letter
from the continental body
requesting it to bail it out by
staging the competition
scheduled to take place later
in the year.
According to our source who
did not want to be mentioned,
the NFF who has been battling
a nagging financial crunch did
not waste time in declining the
offer.
“Yes we have received a letter
from CAF but there is nothing
we can do to help them
because we know the
prevailing situation in the
country. The nation is
presently in recession and it
will be foolish on our part to
begin to request the
government to venture into
such. In fact that would have
presented us in a very bad
light before Nigerians.”
The executive committee of
CAF had met last Thursday in
Libreville, Gabon and
announced the withdrawal of
the hosting right from
Madagascar; a development
many analysts believe is a way
of getting back at the
president of the Malagasy
Football Federation, Ahmad
Ahmad who is the only
candidate that will contest the
presidency of CAF with the age
long incumbent, Issa Haytou.
Hayatou a Cameroonian had
been in charge of CAF since
1998 and despite a change of
its bylaws last September to
limit the tenure of its officers,
CAF tactically left a window for
him run again and if he
expectedly wins, will be in
office till 2021.
http://www.vanguardngr.com/2017/01/nff-rejects-cafs-request-host-u-17-nations-cup/

Nigeria can't host any competition for now except the election to remove buhari from office



When will Hayatou step down or does he need Yaya Jammeh treatment?

Nigeria is broke

That is the last thing Nigerian will want to here nw...or may they shd host the competition outside the africa...i think that will be possible

This is a political move that I commend the nff for at least.


Issa Hayatou used style to get rid of the man from Nigeria that was a potential threat to his dictatorship @ Amos Adamu.


Now see his again using style to. Make Madagascar look bad cos that's the rival's home ground.


I like this stage play.


Hayatou.... I wish we had some US interventions on CAF like they did to FIFA that say Platini and corrup Blatter exit football