Nigeria crashed out of the group stage of the ongoing African Nations Championship, CHAN, after a 1-0 defeat at the hands of Guinea on Tuesday. 
The National team coach, Sunday Oliseh, has expressed remorse and has offered an apology to Nigerians for the early exit.
The Eagles were seen as firm favourites for a slot in the quarter final, but embarrassingly left the 2016 CHAN tournament at the group stage.
Commenting via his official twitter handle, Oliseh said; “We apologize to Nigerians for this loss; we never planned to exit the tournament this early. The boys gave their best.”
“To be honest with you (even though) I am not going to go into details, my boys have been working under extreme duress ever since we got here (Rwanda),” Oliseh told reporters in Rwanda before the game against Guinea.
He continued: “I personally feel like we are driving a car with an empty petrol tank.
“I will not go into details so for that reason, I know that this is just another (bit of) difficulty that we have to surmount.
“That notwithstanding, the boys are human beings and let’s just hope we don’t break,” he said.
The issue of owed bonuses is not new in Nigeria U-23 team, which qualified for the Rio Olympics and won the U23 Africa Cup of Nations in Senegal, were in similar situation of owed bonuses before the intervention by the Sports Minister Solomon Dalung.
The early CHAN oustermeans Oliseh has failed in his first major outing in an African tournament.
