Nigeria re-appoints Keshi as coach of Super Eagles

Nigeria on Tuesday re-appointed Stephen Keshi as coach of the senior national football team, also known as Super Eagles, following a contract signing and unveiling ceremony held in the Nigerian capital Abuja.

The 53-year-old ex-player inked the fresh deal with the Nigeria Football Federation Tuesday afternoon, though it was earlier scheduled to hold last Friday.

Impeccable sources said Keshi's contract signing was deliberately delayed by the football authorities to give him enough time to settle scores with some of the high-ranking members of the local football governing body.

"Keshi has now eaten the humble pie and it is clear he will work in harmony with the football officials, coaches, media and players for the good of the country," said a source who preferred anonymity.

Another source told Xinhua that the Nigerian coach had agreed to work closely with the team's technical director, Shuaibu Amodu and assistant coach Daniel Amokachi, in the two-year contract.

Keshi's fate as coach of the Super Eagles had been hanging in the balance since the team crashed out of the World Cup in Brazil last July, following a second-round defeat by France. He worked on a per-game basis during the country's ill-fated qualifying campaign for the 2015 Africa Cup of Nations in Equatorial Guinea.

The coach will now be supervised by the technical committee of the local football federation till the end of this new contract in 2017. Endi