Keshi is being owed salaries...so as usual the mob is asking for the Minister of sports head in exchange... Well I have good news and bad news...which do you want first? Ok lets do the bad news first: 1. Minister of sports Bolaji Abdulahi has nothing to do with the hiring, negotiation and signing of Keshis contract...I repeat...Nothing. It is the Sole Mandate and Responsibility of the Nigerian Football Federation NFF... 2. The NFF is an autonomous body that FIFA insists Must run without government intervention. The only thing government does is to give them money...but they present a budget to NASS independently for their activities. 3. Now it is also the mandate of the NFF to generate revenue using the brand value of the teams. But this has been a huge failing on their part. We have no jersey sponsor and Im not sure we even have a kit deal...we dont generate enough interest for our games to get the advertising and sponsorship traffic, we dont make enough from gate takings etc. So how does the NFF expect to survive and be able to pay its wages? 4. A good example is the way the English FA manage themselves...the English team will charge around £2m (believe that is the figure) a game to play a friendly match with any country...they have Kit deals, endorsements, etc to add to their revenue. So in essence they run it as a business. Money makin venture. 5. Glo has a deal with the NFF for the eagles which I believe is around N750m. Have they paid? 6. The NFF needs to stop doing paddy paddy arrangements with their brothers and friends for the marketing rights of the teams...they are not achieving anything. 7. I know for a fact that even the U-17 World champions ran out of funds halfway during their campaign and it took the kind intervention of a govt official to raise $300k for them to be able to stay the entire tournament...they were probably praying the boys will lose so they can be sent back home. 8. TV rights for the matches should be sold to the highest bidder. All na revenue. So the good news: If we stopped the senseless witch hunting, we could actually narrow this problem down to its root cause and perhaps find a solution by hounding those responsible and pressuring them to do the right thing. Mob mentality: allowing the guilty ones to get away since 1960... #GetInvolved #TakeBackNigeria
Posted on: Thu, 21 Nov 2013 08:52:56 +0000
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