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Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) Responds To Pictures Of Nigeria's U-20 Female Football Team Sleeping On Bare Floor At The Airport


The Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) has exonerated itself, saying it is not responsible for the plight of the U-20 female football team in Istanbul, Turkey.

The pictures of the footballers sleeping on bare floor at the airport had sparked outrage as many criticised NFF.

The latest news update on further development reveals that the girls departed their hotel in Costa Rica at 6.30am local time on Monday, and were billed to travel via Colombia to Istanbul for the flight to Abuja.

Unfortunately, Turkish Air delayed their flight from Colombia to Turkey for two hours 30 minutes which led them to miss their connecting flight to Turkey.

As a result, they also missed the Turkey connecting flight to Abuja.

NFF had been blamed of not handling the issue professionally, with an outpouring of resentment from the public. In a statement issued on Wednesday, the Federation said  FIFA failed to issue the team transit visa prior to the commencement of the tournament.

"It would be recalled that the NFF had implored world-governing body, FIFA to intervene with the Embassy of Germany to issue the team transit visas before their departure from Nigeria, in order for the team to be able to travel through Germany. This did not happen”, the NFF said in a statement.

The NFF did not book the team’s tickets from Costa Rica; FIFA did. FIFA also did not envisage the hitches that saw the team delayed for more than three hours in Bogota, and another one hour in Panama. By the time the team got to Istanbul, the flight to Abuja had left.

“Our officials pleaded for compassionate transit visas so as to take the players and officials to a hotel inside the town, but this was not possible as they were informed that Nigeria had been removed from the list of countries whose citizens were issued visa-on-arrival in Turkey.

“The airline then took the team to a sleeping area at the airport and gave them tickets to have meals every five hours. This situation has nothing to do with NFF, who had made arrangements to receive the team in Abuja before the complications in travel arrangements,” NFF General Secretary, Dr Mohammed Sanusi, explained.

Comments

  1. Anonymous25 August 2022 at 05:11

    The big question in all of this is where is d Nigeria high commission in Turkey

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  2. Anonymous26 August 2022 at 07:35

    Yeye people!!! What are you even saying 😂😂

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  3. Anonymous26 August 2022 at 07:36

    Better than keeping quiet!!! Just open mouth and waaaaa😂😂

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