Stephen Keshi set to return as Super Eagles coach- NFF

Babalola Tomiwa

The Nigeria Football Federation has said that the suspense surrounding the announcement of the Super Eagles coach, Stephen Keshi will be over this week as the tactician plans to put pen to paper on a new deal this week.

Keshi and his employers have been on this contract issue since the nation's national team crashed out of the FIFA world cup in Brazil last summer.

The NFF's general secretary also made it clear that everything has been concluded on their part and are now waiting for the former Mali and Togo boss to agree to their terms and conditions.

“By the grace of God, the contract of Stephen Keshi will be signed in a day or two. We have completed everything from our end and by the grace of God everything will be finalised this week,” Dr Mohammed Sanusi, General Secretary of the NFF, exclusively told supersport.com on Tuesday.

Sanusi explained that moving Nigeria's football should be everyone's priority not visiting the past, as that will only take the nation's football backward.

“Of what significance (failure to qualify for the 2015 Afcon) is that to our football right now. I don’t think we should go into that now...

“We should be thinking of more important issues right now; things that will take our football to the next level and right now we are talking about the contract of Keshi,” he said.

After failing to qualify for the 2015 Afcon, Nigeria will commence their quest to reach the 2017 tournament in Gabon with a game against Chad on the weekend of June 12-14.

The Super Eagles will also face Tanzania and Egypt in Afcon qualifying Group G and Sanusi is upbeat about the chances of Nigeria progressing from the group.

“We want to make Nigerians have faith in the Super Eagles again. We will strive to do well in the Afcon qualifiers and hopefully we will come out of our group,” he said.