{"id":22225,"date":"2026-01-09T15:54:47","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T13:54:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jhb-webdevelopers\/channelafrica\/news\/nigeria-afcon-bonuses-settled-finance-minister\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T16:33:17","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T14:33:17","slug":"nigeria-afcon-bonuses-settled-finance-minister","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/nigeria-afcon-bonuses-settled-finance-minister\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria AFCON bonuses settled: Finance Minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\" data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">The issue of Nigerian players not receiving bonuses relating to their participation in Africa Cup of Nation (AFCON) matches has been resolved, according to the country\u2019s minister of state finance, Doctor Doris Uzoka-Anite.<\/div>\n<div id=\"x_ms-outlook-mobile-signature\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div>The Super Eagles reportedly boycotted training on Wednesday over unpaid bonuses, raising fresh concerns about player welfare and administration within the Nigeria Football Federation ahead of their fixture against Algeria in Marrakech, Morocco on Saturday.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div>Local media reports on Wednesday suggested that Nigeria\u2019s players and coaching staff were waiting on bonus payments promised to them by the Nigerian Football Federation, with the team having won all four of their group stage AFCON matches so far, against Tanzania, Tunisia and Uganda, as well as their last-16 tie against Mozambique.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div>The players reportedly boycotted training on Wednesday and also threatened not to honour their quarterfinal clash against Algeria if the issue was not resolved according to several reports.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">&#8211;SABC&#8211;<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":11444,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[20],"class_list":["post-22225","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-sport","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"The Super Eagles reportedly boycotted training on Wednesday over unpaid bonuses.","published_date":null,"news_description":"The Super Eagles reportedly boycotted training on Wednesday over unpaid bonuses.","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/22225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/22225\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25597,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/22225\/revisions\/25597"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=22225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}