Keshi leads Eagles, Congo demand new venue

Notwithstanding any change in choice, Stephen Keshi will return as Nigeria mentor for the September 6 Africa Nations Cup qualifier against Congo in Calabar.

Keshi, whose agreement finished with the 2014 World Cup, said on a TV meeting observed in Lagos that he was returning "on enthusiastic grounds."

"I need to appreciation the wishes of Nigerians and the advance by the games pastor to handle the group in any event for the two amusements.

"The need to answer the devoted call and appreciation the wishes of Nigerians educated my desiring the key amusements. We worked so hard to win the Nations Cup in South Africa, I think we ought to do all that we can to shield it in Morocco one year from now," he included AIT's Sportsextra on Monday.

Just a week ago Keshi had said that he was proceeding onward having became weary of holding up for the Nigeria Football Federation. He said he lost a few open doors while holding up for the NFF however was currently pushing other accessible opening's outside the nation.

Keshi contract converse with the NFF has endured postpone because of the wrangling at the football representing body and the contrasts with the mentor in the points of interest of the proposed contract. The league is putting forth to keep up the N5m-a-month bargain they had with him amid his initial residency while Keshi is purportedly request N15m to restore the agreement. The PUNCH additionally learnt that Keshi needs simply a year contract with the alternative to reestablish, while the NFF parts need him sign a four-year bargain.

In the mean time, Congo, who swapped Rwanda for the match, have submitted a letter to the Confederation of African Football asking for the migration of their Group An opener of the Africa Cup of Nations Morocco 2015 qualifier against Nigeria, booked for in Calabar.

The 'Diables Rouges' are concerned with the late Ebola episode in Nigeria.

"I surmise that would be troublesome and dangerous to play around there. No ifs ands or buts, neighboring Cameroon have shut their outskirts," Congo mentor Claude Leroy clarified in a report conveyed by Africanfootball.com.

The spread of the savage infection in West Africa has officially headed CAF to request the migration of Guinea versus Togo and Sierra-Leone versus DR Congo, while some inquiry imprints have been raised about Côte d'ivoire versus Sierra Leone diversion.

Congo busy their spot in the qualifiers of the mainland showpiece after the Rwandans were banished from joining in for fielding ineligible striker Dady Birori