Breaking News: Sunday Oliseh Resigns As Super Eagles Coach

Sunday Oliseh has announced on his official twitter handle,

@sundayooliseh, that he has resigned as the head coach of the Super Eagles with immediate effect after just Eight months in

charge of the Nigeria's national team.

Oliseh, who ranted on his youtube channel a couple of weeks back, calling his critic for failing at the African Nations Championship, CHAN, in Rwanda 'insane', was employed by the Amaju Pinnick led Nigeria Football Federation's board on July 15, 2015.

But the 41-year old sighted "unpaid salaries, contract violations and lack of support" among other reasons for his resignation from the job.

"‏@SundayOOliseh 2h2 hours ago

Due to Contract violations ,lack of Support,Unpaid wages,Benefits to my players, Asst.Coaches & myself, I resign as Super Eagles Chief Coach"

"@SundayOOliseh 2h2 hours ago

I feel fortunate, blessed and eternally grateful for having had the honour to Play,Captain & Coach this great Nation of ours,Nigeria."

"I'll be speaking with @ColinUdoh at #SMWFootballDay on Thursday at 9am. Come and ask your questions @smwLagos"

Oliseh, further thanked the NFF and Nigerians for the opportunity to serve the country in the capacity he did, adding that he will be monitoring the progress of the national team, wishing them well in their future competitions.

Grapevine says that Oliseh sent in his resignation after collecting the back-log of his salaries which were owed him by the NFF.

Responding to the story, Dr Mohammed Sanusi, the NFF General Secretary confirmed to supersport that the former Ajax Amsterdam midfielder has indeed resigned from his post as the coach of the Super Eagles.

“Yes, we have received a letter from him and I can tell you he has resigned as coach of the national team (Super Eagles),”he said.

“I can't tell you the content of the letter yet because we haven’t met to deliberate on it. We are in Zurich for the Fifa congress but as soon as we are through with the meeting, you will be in the know,”Sanusi added.

This is coming less than one month for the super cracker between Nigeria and Egypt, who will coach the Super Eagles at such short period and hopefully, give us qualification to 2017 AFCON? Let's us find a new coach for Nigeria, who would you pick and why?