Ahmed Musa implicated in NFF’s plot to blacklist Super Eagles goalkeeper from future engagements

Super Eagles captain Ahmed Musa has been sucked into the terrible, back-and-forth scandal involving the Nigeria Football Federation, NFF, and Enyimba goalkeeper John Noble.

Reports emerged last week that John Noble was the only member of the Super Eagles squad to the 2021 Africa Cup of Nations in January who had not been paid his tournament bonus.


Every member of the 27-player contingent has reportedly received $25,000 as their Afcon bonus, except John Noble – the only home-based star picked by interim manager Austin Eguavoen.

While the NFF is yet to react to the allegation, it has surfaced that the football body is displeased with Noble for going public with his grievance.

And there are claims that the NFF has vowed to stop inviting the goalkeeper for future Super Eagles matches, effectively ending his international career.

It appears that Sivasspor attacker Ahmed Musa has sided with the Nigeria Football Federation against his international colleague.

According to Shola Oludare, the journalist who broke the story, Musa claimed that Noble was at fault for the unpaid allowance as the shot-stopper provided a wrong dollar account.

But it seems that argument holds no water as Noble has previously received payments from the NFF through the said account.

It has been over ten months since Nigeria’s Super Eagles crashed out of the Africa Cup of Nations in the first knockout round.

In the opening round, Nigeria defeated Egypt, Guinea Bissau, and Sudan to finish top of Group D.

Dear @Ahmedmusa718, you told @osasuo that John Noble dropped a wrong dollar account and as such, he could not get his 25,000 dollars (Afcon 2021 bonuses). That is 100% false! How come he got his daily camp allowances (Afcon 2021) in that same account?

— Shina Oludare ???????? (@sportingshina) December 23, 2022

6/ Noble, definitely is not the first player that will go through this ordeal, but this is arrant nonsense. It must stop! This does not add up. I will call out names in the coming days ... Be prepared!

Good morning!

— Shina Oludare ???????? (@sportingshina) December 23, 2022

3/ Dear @Ahmedmusa718, just so to let you know that Noble never dropped a wrong account number at any given time. Of course, there could be bank issues and I understand that other five players had same challenge.

— Shina Oludare ???????? (@sportingshina) December 23, 2022

5/ Ofcourse, from the concrete evidences I have, Noble has been told that he would never be called up for international engagements in future. That is okay! Very understandable, but this 25k dollars? He must be paid. He worked for it.

— Shina Oludare ???????? (@sportingshina) December 23, 2022