By Piers Edwards BBC Sport, Dakar

Ndiaye's contract had been set to expire next month

Until the Normalisation Committee running Senegalese football took shape on Tuesday, Ndiaye's tenure as Teranga Lions boss had been set to expire next month.

Yet the man who took charge in January during the Nations Cup is now set to lead Senegal in all their preliminary 2010 World Cup and Nations Cup qualifiers.

"We have a competent trainer in whom we have confidence," Saer Seck, the Normalisation Committee's vice-president, told BBC Sport on Friday.

"Although we have not done it yet, his contract will be extended until the end of October."

The Teranga Lions begin their Group 6 qualifying campaign with a home match against Algeria on 31 May but the pool, which also comprises Liberia and The Gambia, does not end until October.

Given the disintegration of Senegalese football earlier this year, Ndiaye recently said his main aim was not World Cup qualification but to aid the restoration of the Senegalese game.

It is a stance with which Seck agrees - even though the West Africans were World Cup quarter-finalists just six years ago.

"If we don't qualify for the World Cup in South Africa, it will not be a disaster. Of course, we will try to be present and have the best team possible," he explained.

"But Senegal is currently at a very low performance level and we have to rebuild - whether it takes one year, or ten."

After 29 out of 40 football federation members resigned following Senegal's first-round Nations Cup exit, Ndiaye had little idea whether he would continue in his post.

For several weeks, he was unable to watch his players in action nor plan for the future as a power vacuum at the top of the Senegalese game continued.

But the 51-year-old, who took charge mid-Nations Cup following Henri Kasperczak's shock resignation in Ghana, now has a fantastic chance to attain the job on a permanent basis.