The Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) announced a budget of N5.9 billion for the sporting activities next year.
This was contained in the budget template document the Federation submitted to the National Assembly and circulated to congress members during its 71st Annual General Assembly in Abuja.
The document revealed that while N1.5 billion would be spent on Super Eagles’ participation in the Championship of African Nations scheduled for Rwanda from January 16 to February 7, 2016, the amount would take care of the team’s camping and selection of players, qualifiers, overseas training tour as well as actual participation in the competition.
The Federation equally disclosed that the U-20 FIFA Women World Cup billed for Papua New Guinea from November 13 to December 3, would gulp N672 million, explaining that the amount would be spent on qualifier matches, overseas training tour and the competition.
For the preparations of the Dream Team VI for the 2016 Rio Olympic Games, the Federation also revealed that it has earmarked about N369 million for the tournament, adding that Nigeria’s preparation and participation in the U-20 men’s Cup of Nations would gulp N620 million during the year.
It said that it has set aside N471 million to prosecute Beach football competition, tagged COPA Lagos, during the year, the Federation pointed out that a budget of about N651 million was reserved for the country’s preparation and participation in the U-17 Women World Cup in Jordan.
Allocating N920 million for Africa Women Championship in November, N220 million on Men and Women Federation Cup competition, the federation also set aside the sum of N115 million for the U-13 and U-15 Youth Championships at the grassroots, revealing that the AGA for 2016 would gulp an estimate of N54 million, while about N286 million would go for the payment of coaches’ salaries. [myad]
