Stephen Keshi will open camp for the home-based Super Eagles players in May, ahead of the qualifying matches for the 2017 Africa Cup of Nations.
The Big Boss, who recently signed a new deal that will last till 2018, explained that early preparation was necessary.
“We need to start camping next month by the special grace of God because time is not on our side again since the fixtures for the Afcon 2017 qualifiers have been released by CAF,” Keshi told Goal.
“We will definitely start off with the players based here in Nigeria and move on until the required time the overseas clubs can release our players for us.”
Nigeria have been grouped with Chad, Egypt and Tanzania in the qualifiers and Keshi will be expecting the players from May 17.
“The camp is expected to kick off middle of May since we will be playing our first qualifying match at home in Abuja to Chad on June 13. So the players are expected to start arriving camp after their league matches on Saturday, May 16. So we should expect them to be available on Sunday, May 17,” a source close to the team disclosed.
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