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No Nigeria/Togo friendly —NFF

The Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) has refuted claims that the Super Eagles will face Togo in an international friendly in Paris on June 1.

The NFF Director of Media and Communications, Ademola Olajire, explained to supersport.com that no game involving the Hawks of Togo had been included in the schedule of the Super Eagles for June 1.

“There is no such game for the Super Eagles as I speak with you,” Olajire said on Friday.

News of the planned international friendly was first announced on an unverified account of the Togo Football Federation (FTF) on microblogging social networking service, Twitter, on Thursday.

It announced that the Togo national team will face Nigeria in a friendly on June 1.

The former African champions are billed to hold a camping exercises for 25 players in the French region of Corsica and Paris ahead of their 2019 Africa Cup of Nations qualifying match against South Africa next month.

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