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Amidst the recent conflict between the National football team of Nigeria and Libya, the Confederation of African Football, CAF, has reached its final decision regarding the Africa Cup of Nations, AFCON qualifier between Libya and Nigeria.
The football body has finally announced the postponement of the game.
The game was slated to be played this evening in Libya.
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In an official statement, CAF indicated that the fixture would not proceed as planned.
The football body did not, however, provide specific reasons for the postponement.
CAFF will now take the matter to the appropriate bodies for further consideration.
The statement added, “The TotalEnergies CAF Africa Cup of Nations Morocco 2025 Qualifier fixture between Libya and Nigeria will not take place as scheduled tonight,” the short statement reads.
“The matter will be referred to the competent CAF bodies.”
The Nigeria Football Federation, NFF took the decision to pull out of the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations qualifying matchday four encounter following the inhumane treatment the players were subjected to in Libya.
The encounter was earlier scheduled to hold in Benina on Tuesday.
After the ensuing conflict in Libya, some of the players and officials of the Nigeria national football team, the Super Eagles, were set to fly back from Libya.
This came after the Libyan government succumbed to pressure from external bodies, to refuel the Super Eagles’ chartered jet and clear their airspace.
The Nigerian players were abandoned at the Al Abraq International Airport without food, water or Internet for over 15 hours.
But they are now enroute Nigeria, as confirmed by sports journalist Adepoju Tobi Samuel, popularly known as OgaNlaMedia.
He wrote on X: “After pressure from several quarters, the Libyan government has agreed to issue clearance for ValueJet Airline to fly and sell aviation fuel to the airline.
“They came with a gimmick to issue a pre-clearance to land in Benghazi first before we fly to Nigeria. The same Benghazi that was busy yesterday.
“The NFF has insisted that the clearance from Al-Abraq airport must be for the team to fly directly to Nigeria.”
The Libyan Football Federation has also issued a statement denying any targeted inhumane treatment of Nigeria’s Super Eagles delegation, which arrived in Libya for their Africa Cup of Nations qualifier match Sunday night.
