{"id":20262,"date":"2024-10-25T18:01:07","date_gmt":"2024-10-25T18:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=20262"},"modified":"2024-10-25T18:01:56","modified_gmt":"2024-10-25T18:01:56","slug":"20262","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=20262","title":{"rendered":"Libya vs Nigeria: CAF keeps parties in suspense"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">The Confederation of Africa Football is keeping all concerned in suspense after failing to announce its verdict on Wednesday as regards the botched AFCON qualifying Group A fixture scheduled for October 15 at Benina Martyrs Stadium.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">It appears the football body has yet to arrive at a decision, with BeIN Sports revealing that the Disciplinary Committee entertained explanations from both parties on Wednesday via video conference, with Libya and Nigeria duly represented.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">CAF had previously decided to cancel the Libya-Nigeria match after the Nigerian national team left Libya in protest at the diversion of its flight to Labraq Airport, where they were locked in for 18 hours with neither food nor water.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Nigeria had called on CAF to intervene to rescue them from detention inside Labraq Airport, according to the Nigerian side\u2019s allegations.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">CAF President, Patrice Motsepe, said that the incident was under investigation as the rules for receiving visiting teams are being reviewed, stressing that CAF will take strict decisions in this crisis and will not tolerate any deviation.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Confederation of Africa Football is keeping all concerned in suspense after failing to announce its verdict on Wednesday as regards the botched AFCON qualifying Group A fixture scheduled for October 15 at Benina Martyrs Stadium.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20263,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[3815,8179,5339,92,9224],"class_list":["post-20262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-afcon","tag-caf","tag-libya","tag-nigeria","tag-suspense"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20262"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20262"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20262\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20265,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20262\/revisions\/20265"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/20263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}