NIGERIANS are too happy over the performance of the home-based Eagles at the just concluded CHAN contest in South Africa that they did not notice one of its blights - Nigeria paid bonus to the Eagles for losing to Ghana.
When it happened at the 1998 World Cup, it was criticised. The players had insisted on their winning bonus before a game they eventually lost. The practice continued surreptitiously. We thought that it would have stopped with all the noise about government's transformation agenda.
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