NSC Set To Lay Off 250 Athletes From Training Camp

Less than three weeks to the 11th All Africa Games (AAG) in Brazzaville, Congo, the National Sports Commission (NSC) is set to decamp about 250 athletes presently undergoing trials at the various federations’ training facilities.

No fewer than 750 athletes had been invited to camps by the 19 sports federations that will feature athletes at the Brazzaville AAG, but only 450 will make the cut for the games beginning on September 4, 2015.

Director-General of the NSC, Mallam Alhassan Yakmut, told National Mirror exclusively that the Commission would send the 250 home to allow the coaches concentrate on the 450 athletes that will travel to Congo.

National Sports Commission Gives NFF Conditions Before Unveiling Oliseh

The Nigeria Football Federation moved to pacify the Director General of the National Sports Commission, Al Hassan Yakmut and solicited support for the unveiling of Sunday Oliseh as the new coach of the Super Eagles.

On Monday afternoon, the NFF general secretary Dr Mohammed Sanusi met with Yakmut at the NSC secretariat at the Abuja National Stadium where they had a closed door meeting relating to the appointment and unveiling of the former national team captain.

Feelers from the NSC pointed to a truce while the Director General also gave some conditions the NFF needs to meet before the NSC could accept Oliseh as the new coach.

NIGERIA SPORTS: NSC budgets N5.55bn for 2014

The National Sports Commission (NSC), has set aside N5.546 billion as budgetary allocation for the 2014 fiscal year, allocating N1.196 billion as total personnel, N 2.922 billion as total overhead, N4.118 billion as total recurrent, and N1.428 billion as total capital amounting to N5.546 billion.

According to the Annual Budget, the commission sent to the Budget Office made available to our correspondent in Abuja, the Sports Ministry equally earmarked the sum of N7.110 million for honorarium, sitting allowance, refreshment and meals.

A further breakdown of the commission’s annual expenditure revealed that the Sports Ministry earmarked a total sum of N100.612 million for travel and transport generally, stressing that while local travel and transport for trainings would take N11.659 million, other local travel and transport would gulp N26.089 million.