Nigerian sports minister Solomon Dalung is under pressure to refund a sum of $135,000 which the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) “mistakenly” paid in excess as a grant to the country in 2017 and has since been unsuccessful in retrieving.

In May 2017, instead of paying $15,000 as contribution to the African Championships, the global athletics body paid $150,000 to the Athletics Federation of Nigeria (AFN) and noticed the anomaly two months later.