The president of Nigeria Football Federation, Amaju Pinnick has revealed that one of Nigeria’s leading financial institutions, Zenith Bank, will be responsible for the salary of Sunday Oliseh, the Super Eagles head coach.
The national team coach is believed to earn a salary that is close to N5 million a month,and as reported the financial institution will cough out the sum of N60 million to pay Oliseh’s salary.
President of Nigeria Football Federation, NFF, Amaju Pinnick, made the revelation concerning Oliseh’s salary on Monday, noting that, NFF is brokering a deal that will see Zenith Bank pay Oliseh for at least a year.
He noted that the deal is yet to be concluded. Pinnick highlighted the future programmes of the football house which includes a youth sustainability program that would be sponsored by the bank. In his words,
“A newly designed world class Nike kit will be arriving sometime in February and under this sponsorship, state FA chairmen will visit Derby County FA for exchange of ideas. Part of the deal will see Zenith Bank sponsor our youth programme and pay the salary of Coach Oliseh for one year.
“We’ve been on the plan for a sustainable youth programme for over nine months and we hope it will out-live us. It’s a deal we’ll have for four years. Every year we’ll have talents churned out. We are unveiling a sponsor for our youth development programme that will see us produce future Super Eagles,” Pinnick revealed.
