According to BBC, the directive was issued by the FIFA
tribunal saddled with the case.
The federation sacked Rohr in 2021 and had agreed to pay the
gaffer’s salary until the end of his contract, which expires in December 2022.
The Franco-German, however, escalated the case to the
football’s world governing body, while also demanding $1 million in damages for
breach of contract without just cause.
According to the ruling, the FiFA players’ status chamber
decided his claim was “partially accepted insofar as it is admissible” and
ordered the NFF to pay $377,879.46 to the gaffer.
It also added that the compensation must be paid within the
next 45 days, or FIFA will sanction Nigeria.
“If full payment (including all applicable interest) is not
made within 45 days of notification of this decision, the respondent [the NFF]
shall be imposed a restriction on receiving a percentage of development
funding, up until the due amounts are paid,” it read.
The federation will not be appealing the decision because
the “sum basically reflects whatever is left to pay him as previously agreed
until the end of December 2022,” top NFF official said
The latest ruling comes just one week after FIFA sanctioned
Nigeria for the crowd invasion that followed the failure of the Eagles to
qualify for the Qatar 2022 World Cup.