The national U-20 team, Flying Eagles were each paid $1,500 by the officials of the Nigeria Football Federation after their 2-0 win over Burundi in their opening U-20 AFCON Group A clash at the weekend.
This may well be a massive turnaround by the NFF, who had earlier announced they will not pay match bonuses to any age-group national teams including the Flying Eagles.
The Amaju Melvin Pinnick led NFF board had complained that lack of funds forced them to adopt this policy against the age-group teams.