New Super Eagles coach to earn N18.6M per month

New Technical Adviser of the Super Eagles, Gernot Rohr is to be paid the sum of N18.6m ($47, 000) per month by the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF).

Rohr earlier in the month signed a two-year contract with the NFF to be the Technical Adviser of the Super Eagles.

StreetView Media Sports have learnt that the German who has agreed to stay in Nigeria will be paid the sum by an oil and gas firm which has agreed to sponsor the NFF.

The former Burkina Faso coach was hired by the NFF after the unsuccessful attempt to appoint Frenchman, Paul Le Guen as the Technical adviser of Nigeria.

The NFF had plans to pay Le Guen the sum of N16.2m per month but the Frenchman rejected the chance to coach the Super Eagles.

Ex-Super Eagles captain launches football academy in prisons

Ex-Super Eagles captain, Joseph Yobo has launched a football academy in prisons to help secure the release of inmates.

Yobo on Saturday, August 27 was at the Ikoyi Prisons where he launched his new initiative with his Joseph Yobo Foundation in collaboration with Sisters Cities Vocational/Rehabilitation Centre and the Nigerian Prisons Service in the latter’s football academy project, “Football Stars Behind Bars’’.

“I have never been to the prisons before but on getting to Ikoyi Prisons, I realised the need to give hope to someone,” Yobo said in his statement.

“The Joseph Yobo Foundation is ready to do everything within its means to grant bail to as many as possible that are awaiting trial, especially those in the facility’s football academy.

“I am happy with what is going on in this facility. I have never been here before but when I got here, what I saw jolted me.

 “I thought I will see persons looking very sad, rushing to go out but rather, I saw them very happy, cheerful and looking very hopeful.

playYobo is launching the initiative through his Joseph Yobo Foundation in collaboration with Sisters Cities Vocational/Rehabilitation Centre and the Nigerian Prisons Servic