Nigeria: Keshi, Oliseh and Nigeria's Football

THE unveiling of Nigeria's new national football coach the 45th in tow, to handle the national team, the Super Eagles, after the sacking of Stephen Keshi, seems a shot at a sustainable football culture by the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF).

Indeed, Sunday Oliseh's presentation is like turning the page in NFF's age-long chaotic relationship with coaches. But a critical assessment of the crises and chaos that is Nigeria's football administration in the past decades makes such optimistic conclusion untenable, even deceptive.

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