The technical director of Nigeria Football Federation (NFF), Augustine Eguavoen has unfolded what he referred to as strategic efforts by the governing body of the round leather game to build the capacity of coaches across the country.
Sports247 reports that Eguavoen stated this while disclosing details of the forthcoming CAF B-License refresher course, which he said is another move by the NFF towards improving the quality of Nigerian coaches.
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He revealed that the course, which will hold from June 20th to 24th, will be followed by a six-module CAF A-License course that will run for seven months – August 2nd, 2026 to February 7th, 2027 – as the NFF step up its efforts in technical capacity-building.
A media statement from the NFF’s communications department futther revealed that all participants must be active coaches at the elite level (national teams, NPFL, NNL, NWFL and NLO), as well as holders of CAF B diploma.
Nigerian coaches will pay N3m for the CAF A-License course, which will cost foreign applicants $3,000 each, while Nigerian coaches are to pay N700,000 per person for the CAF B refresher course.
CAF B Refresher and CAF A-License pre-course assessment will be used to test applicants’ game analysis, reading/writing, presentation and computer skills into the CAF A-License course, which will have only 25 candidates.
Application deadline for the CAF A-License course is this Sunday, May 31st, while CAF B Refresher and CAF A pre-course assessment will be conducted virtually and in-person from June 1st to 23rd.
Eguavoen noted that the federation is consolidating on Nigeria’s readmission to the CAF A-License pool after nine years’ absence, and declared: “This is part of the NFF’s strategic effort to build the capacity of coaches across the country.”
