Nigerian Athletes Risk Global Ban For $130,000 Error Payment

The International Association of Athletics Federation has threatened to sanction its affiliate body in Nigeria following an accidental payment of $130,000 to the body.

The IAAF Senior Manager claims that the AFN was contacted immediately after the anomaly payment was noticed and that the AFN were made aware, they had been wrongly credited.  

Giving details of the correspondences between both federations and even the Minister of Sports Solomon Dalung, Mr Isram noted in the letter: "You were informed on 18 March 2018 by our CEO of a payment made by the IAAF to the bank account of your federation on 17 May 2017. A sum of 150,000 US Dollars was transferred by the IAAF of which 130,000 US Dollars were wrongfully credited.

The IAAF has stated that if the funds are not received in two weeks they will have no alternative but to apply sanctions to the Nigerian Athletics Association