The four former officials of the Nigeria Football Federation who were quizzed by EFCC operatives on Monday and charged to court on Tuesday will spend their Sallah holiday in the EFCC custody for their inability to meet the bail conditions on time.

EFCC Head of Media and Publicity Femi Babafemi confirmed in a telephone interview last night that the four accused persons have been remanded at Kuje Prison.

The accused persons, Alhaji Sani Lulu Abdullahi former President of the NFF, his former Vice Amanze Uchegbulam, erstwhile General Secretary Bolaji Ojo-Oba and former Technical Committee Chairman Taiwo Ogunjobi were granted bail on Tuesday by a Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, but could not meet the bail conditions on time, hence their continued detention by the anti-graft agency.

Justice Donatus Okorowo had granted them bail in the sum of N100 million each, with two sureties each. He said one of the sureties must be a civil servant in the rank of Assistant Director on Grade Level 15 and above.

He added that the sureties must have a source of living with three years tax clearance from the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) and owners of landed property within the FCT.

Okorowo ordered the accused to deposit their international passports with the Senior Registrar of the court.

He further ordered that they should be kept in EFCC custody pending when they would fulfill their bail terms.

"In case the accused failed to meet up with the bail conditions, they should be returned to the court for a directive to be taken to Kuje Prison pending when they would fulfill their bail terms," the judge said.

Throughout yesterday, the four former NFF officials who were dismissed from the NFF Executive Committee by the board over fraud, made frantic efforts to meet the bail conditions, but could not meet until late yesterday, which made the court officials to deny them bail till Monday when work would resume after the Sallah break.

Lulu and his former colleagues in the executive committee of the NFF, who were arraigned by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, have been handed a 10-count charge for misappropriating World Cup budget of 900 million (about $6 million) and paying out estacode allowances to unauthorized officials totaling over $800,000.

The officials will also answer to charges of incurring a fine for a last-minute change of a World Cup training base for the national team and forking out $400,000 to stage a friendly against Colombia in London before the World Cup.