Guys, guys, guys, what are your views on this situation. Some of you are missing the point of the withdrawal from international football.

It's not that the team is doing bad, the government couldn't care less about that. It is due to the NFF (equivalent to FA of England) they have been deemed as corrupt squandering millions even billions of Nigerian taxpayers money. The Sports Minister went to FIFA in order to get authority to disband the NFF but FIFA wouldn't allow it. He even asked if Blatter could keep the $8 Million dollars in which FIFA is supposed to give nations participating in the world cup, as part of it will go into the pockets of members of the NFF.

Goodluck Jonothan asked the president of the NFF to resign, but he refused.

So the only thing he could do was to ban the team from itnernational football (removing them from FIFA) and now allowing them to probe the NFF without any FIFA opposition.

With the amount of taxpayers money spent on the team, it is a drastic step which had to be made especially in a country in which does not have continuous electricity yet, football is not on the top of its agenda.
There has been corruption charges based on hiring of coaches (Research Glenn Hoddle's claims) millions has mysteriously vanished into thin air from the NFF.

So the agenda now would be simply:

- Re-structure the NFF (bringing new members - most likely ex footballers who are passionate about football) outside the world of FIFA
- Once they have investigated corruption allegations, they should report their findings to FIFA. And if succesful reapply to FIFA.

However this 2 year ban could be all be but a mere memory if the president of the NFF simply resigns, but he would not do such a thing; as at the moment he has nothing to lose.

If he resigns he loses his job and will still be investigated for corruption
If he stays he loses his job and will still be investigated for corruption (Although Nigeria will not feature in football, African mentality is not like that if we see the former French FA president resigned immediately)