http://www.sunnewsonline.com/webpages/sports/2010/may/03/sports-03-05-2010-002.htm

The Federal Government will pay a fine of $250,000 as penalty for canceling the booking of the mosquito infested, no-security New Hampshire Hotel initially chosen by the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) for the Super Eagles.

The Nigerian delegation led by the Sports Minister, Ibrahim Issah Bio, after a meeting with the hotel management agreed to cough the huge sum being charge for contract cancellation.

During a tour of the New Hampshire Hotel, Bio had expressed concern about security at the hotel.
"I am concerned about the noise and unsure of the security of this place. We can not toy with the safety of our players who are ambassadors of our great country." he said.

The Nigerian delegation was in Pretoria and Johannesburg with the Nigerian Ambassador, Buba Marwa, to look at other hotels for the Super Eagles and eventually settled for the Richards Bay Hotel Sheena Mistri, from FIFA Match's accommodation office, said the Nigerian delegation had visited the province last year December and were shown all the available match-approved hotels. The New Hampshire Hotel was originally not a FIFA-approved hotel but the NFF was insistent it was the property it wanted. The federation requested us to approve the hotel for its team accommodation."

Phindani Nene, who assisted the provincial government in securing World Cup team base camp accommodation, said the most important person to make the decision about the hotel was the coach. "Our mandate was to satisfy the coach, which we did. But since December, Nigeria has changed her coach."

The high cost of the change in base camp by Nigeria may be a result of the insistence of FIFA last week that no country would be allowed to change its base camp for the World Cup.

so u dont know the difference between 250,000 and 25m? plz go and collect ur refund from the primary school you attended. imagine the senationalist headline you have posted there.

You are wrong, Kgdavid!

The writer says $.25m which is same as $250,000.
You missed the initial decimal point, your error.

However, even the 0.25m is too much to pay as cancellation fees, more than a full month before the event.
How did the Nigerian officials enter into such a dumb arrangement?
What happened to the age old tradition of full refund by hotels if you cancel reservations up to 24 hours in advance?


Olusegun

poster accept my apologies, im sorry. im a bit bewildered about the crap going on but we must ave some real stupid people in charge

Cheers David. You admit error -- you are a great Nigerian!

junk set of people.

typo

typo where?

As usual, no heads will roll.

*Looks up to the sky*: "God, please put me in charge one day!"

Nigerians indeed knows how to spend their hard earned cash,money spenders.