AFCON U-23 Championship: Dream Team VI To Be Paid Outstanding Hours Before Algeria Clash

We reported earlier that the sports ministry of Nigeria ordered a quick financial intervention for the Dream Team VI in Senegal after they won the Olympic 2016 ticket. The players were earlier paid $100 by Samson Siasia. In the usual way of Nigeria the boys will be paid in cash as soon as the official gets to Senegal some hours before the final. Players to get paid in cash? Where is the CBN cashless policy? So much for this Naija..

Officials disclosed that sports ministry personnel, who will pay them will only arrive early morning on Saturday and ensure the team are paid before they step out on the Leopold Sedar senghor Stadium in Dakar by 8pm same day.

“The sports ministry officials are due in by midnight and thereafter they will pay the team,” an official specially disclosed.


The players are due $2,000-a-man win bonus and a daily allowance of $100 beginning from their training camp in The Gambia.

The Dream Team VI reached the championship game without being paid a dime.

Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) president Amaju Pinnick has admitted the federation are facing financial hard times.

"These are tough times in Nigeria and this is also affecting the federation as we are tied to the apron strings of the government,”Pinnick said.