Super Eagles players are expected to report to their Uyo camp on Monday, ahead of the 2025 AFCON qualifier matches against the Benin Republic and Rwanda, says the Nigeria Football Federation.
After a second-place finish in Ivory Coast earlier this year, the road to another showpiece, which will be played in Morocco from December 21, 2025, to January 18, 2026, begins for Nigeria against Benin Republic on Saturday, September 7, while they will face Rwanda three days later in Kigali.
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“We have been on the tax issue for the past three days, and I told him clearly that there was no way the NFF would agree to offset the concomitant tax percentage on his salary that will be demanded by German tax authorities,” said NFF president Ibrahim Musa Gusau.
“It is not possible for us to shoulder the responsibility of shelling out another money, between 32 per cent and 40 per cent of his salary, after paying the agreed monthly wage.”
