Coach Christopher Danjuma has denied media report suggesting that Falconets were not paid their entitlements before and during this year's FIFA U20 Women's World Cup in France.

 On Wednesday, an online publication had claimed that players and officials of the country's U20 women's team were suffering before Sports Minister, Solomon Dalung intervened and gave them personal cash of $7,000.

But Danjuma who guided the national side to the quarterfinals of the competition, has described the report as "a silly and mischievous story."

"I see this as a silly, mischievous story. I have spoken to my assistants and backroom staff and they all denied talking to the reporter,” Danjuma said in a media statement released by the media department of the The NFF on Wednesday.

“We were paid our entitlements for the camping in Austria and at the FIFA World Cup, and no money was lost as claimed in the story.

“From the very first day I saw the reporter in our camp prior to our departure to the final training camp in Austria, I observed he was a very funny figure just looking for negative stuff to report.

“It is unfortunate that some persons commit their lives to trying to cause mischief and trouble wherever they see there is peace.

“We had been paid our entitlements before the Sports Minister came. I am aghast at what the reporter was out to achieve. Was the reporter in Austria with the team to ascertain we were suffering?

“No member of the Falconets’ technical crew or the playing body has any negative thing to say about the NFF. They did their very best for us and supported the team at each point during the qualifying series, the training camp and the FIFA World Cup.”

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