The Minister of Sports, Senator John Enoh, has assured Nigerian football fans that the senior men’s national team, the Super Eagles, would have a new coach in the next one or two weeks.

The Super Eagles have been without a substantive coach after the contract of Jose Peseiro expired at the end of the Africa Cup of Nations in February where the team finished as runners up.

Finidi George, who was one of the assistants to Peseiro coached the team in the last two friendly matches they played against Ghana and Mali, but the Minister said the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) will soon name a permanent coach for the team.

The minister insisted that Nigeria cannot afford to miss out on going to another World Cup, having started the 2026 World Cup qualifiers on a poor note, with two draws against Lesotho and Zimbabwe.