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Katsina United coach Henry Makinwa has revealed the major reason a number of players in the Nigerian Professional football league might not be interested in moving abroad.
Some notable NPFL players have earlier confirmed that they earn well enough in Nigeria and will not travel to a country where salaries will be owed or delayed, Players like Ikechukwu Ezenwa, Theophilus Affelokhai, Femi Thomas made the revelations and was published by some media outlets.
Speaking exclusively through brila.net, Makinwa says the average Nigerian league player earns from the range of three hundred thousand naira to one million naira which is fair compared to the wages of average Nigerian workers.
”Right away, Nigerian players are highly paid compared to the values of the local currency, they are well paid,”
”Average Nigerian players’ salaries are between three hundred, eight hundred and there are some that get one million naira,” he said.
“If a player tells you he will not go abroad to play, that’s because he is happy with what he earns and it is highly encouraging,”
