Categories: Football

Super Eagles observe minute silence for lives lost during AFCON semifinal match

Super Eagles players on Thursday night observed a minute silence in honour of lives lost in the course of the semi-final match against South Africa on Wednesday, February 7.

An APC chieftain, Cairo Ojougboh, an Ivory Coast-based Nigerian businessman, a serving NYSC member as well as the Deputy Bursar of Kwara State University (KWASU), Malete, Alhaji Ayuba Abdullahi, all died on Wednesday night, Feb. 7, while watching the semi-finals between Nigeria and South Africa in the ongoing AFCON.

The players gathered and observed a minute silence in honour of the deceased Nigerians and went on to say prayers for the repose of their souls and for God to comfort their families.

Femi Akinyemi

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