By femi Atolagbe

President of Nigeria Football Federation (NFF), Amaju Pinnick has said that the Federation will roll out grants for Nigerian football clubs within the next two weeks.
Pinnick, who stated this yesterday highlighted how the funds being expected would be used.
“We’re expecting about $1million from FIFA and we’re expecting about $500,000 for Women’s Football. We are also expecting about $500,000 from CAF”.
“We also have some funds from Nike, Nigerian Breweries and some of our partners and once we get them, then we will give the clubs monies based on what we have.”
Some African countries (including Senegal and Ghana) have in recent days published a breakdown of what each club in their countries will earn from the grants.
Pinnick however noted that while the NFF will do same, his Federation have not done so because it would amount to playing to the gallery.
He adds: “We don’t want to play to the gallery by saying this is what we want to do but once we have all these funds, we hope to mop up funds from our partners (in addition to those from FIFA and CAF), then we will put all these together and apportion it to all clubs.
“So that if we are starting the season, we know that we will start the season and finish it. The best way we can achieve this is to make sure we get some funds for these clubs without waiting for their sponsors.
“Within the next two weeks, we should be able to come out with a reasonable template with which we can appropriate all these funds,’ he said.
Pinnick stated that the Executive Committee of the NFF will meet next week to make decisions that bother on this development and other pressing matters.