Nigeria, Liberia friendly cancelled over strike
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The game has been moved forward by two weeks following the nationwide strike that has grounded flights in and out of Nigeria.
Officials of the two countries say they believe the crisis would be resolved before the next two weeks the match is scheduled to hold.
“The Nigeria Football Federation and the Liberia Football Association have both agreed to postpone the friendly match between their senior teams by two weeks, after which circumstances that have necessitated the shift would surely have normalized”, stated Barrister Musa Amadu, General Secretary of the NFF.
The match between the Super Eagles and the Lone Star will now take place at the end of January.
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Nigeria, Liberia friendly cancelled over strike
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Officials of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) and the Liberia Football Association (LFA) yesterday agreed to postpone the international friendly match between the two countries’ senior men’s football teams earlier billed for tomorrow. The postponement is occasioned by the ongoing nationwide strike embarked by labour unions in Nigeria to protest the removal of subsidy on petrol by the Goodluck Jonathan-led Federal Government.The game has been moved forward by two weeks following the nationwide strike that has grounded flights in and out of Nigeria.
Officials of the two countries say they believe the crisis would be resolved before the next two weeks the match is scheduled to hold.
“The Nigeria Football Federation and the Liberia Football Association have both agreed to postpone the friendly match between their senior teams by two weeks, after which circumstances that have necessitated the shift would surely have normalized”, stated Barrister Musa Amadu, General Secretary of the NFF.
The match between the Super Eagles and the Lone Star will now take place at the end of January.