Nigeria awarded a 3-0 victory after boycotting their AFCON qualifier Libya due to squad being left stranded at the airport for more than 16 HOURS without food and drinks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The three points took Nigeria to 10 with two matches left to play, four ahead of second-placed Benin and five ahead of Rwanda. Libya have a single point from four games and are in last place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Nigeria had refused to play the match in Benghazi on Oct. 15, citing mistreatment on arrival in the country some 48 hours before the scheduled kick-off. Nigerian players and officials were kept in a locked airport for more than 16 hours<\/a>, almost 250km away from their intended destination, after their charter flight was redirected while on approach to Benghazi and instead landed in Bayda.<\/p>\n\n\n\n CAF said Nigeria were awarded the match with a 3-0 scoreline and that Libya had been fined $50,000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Nigeria awarded a 3-0 victory after boycotting their AFCON qualifier Libya due to squad being<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1473,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,11],"tags":[50,64,59,58],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/williamsfeed.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/WhatsApp-Image-2024-10-27-at-18.47.56_7e1ee239.jpg",480,260,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/williamsfeed.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/WhatsApp-Image-2024-10-27-at-18.47.56_7e1ee239-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/williamsfeed.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/WhatsApp-Image-2024-10-27-at-18.47.56_7e1ee239-300x163.jpg",300,163,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/williamsfeed.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/WhatsApp-Image-2024-10-27-at-18.47.56_7e1ee239.jpg",480,260,false],"large":["https:\/\/williamsfeed.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/WhatsApp-Image-2024-10-27-at-18.47.56_7e1ee239.jpg",480,260,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/williamsfeed.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/WhatsApp-Image-2024-10-27-at-18.47.56_7e1ee239.jpg",480,260,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/williamsfeed.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/WhatsApp-Image-2024-10-27-at-18.47.56_7e1ee239.jpg",480,260,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/williamsfeed.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/WhatsApp-Image-2024-10-27-at-18.47.56_7e1ee239.jpg",480,260,false],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/williamsfeed.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/WhatsApp-Image-2024-10-27-at-18.47.56_7e1ee239.jpg",480,260,false],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/williamsfeed.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/WhatsApp-Image-2024-10-27-at-18.47.56_7e1ee239.jpg",480,260,false]},"author_info":{"display_name":"williamsfeed","author_link":"https:\/\/williamsfeed.com\/index.php\/author\/mickeybold7\/"},"category_info":"Africa<\/a> Sports<\/a>","tag_info":"Sports","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/williamsfeed.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1471"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/williamsfeed.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/williamsfeed.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/williamsfeed.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/williamsfeed.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1471"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/williamsfeed.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1471\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1474,"href":"https:\/\/williamsfeed.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1471\/revisions\/1474"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/williamsfeed.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/williamsfeed.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/williamsfeed.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/williamsfeed.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}