Nigeria’s under 20 team, the Flying Eagles will arrive in Lome, Togo on Wednesday for the West Africa Football Union (WAFU) U-20 Cup of Nations.
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Paul Aigbogun’s team will play Benin Republic in their first group match, before a potentially explosive clash with regional Anglophone rivals, Ghana.
The team was due to fly out into Lome on Tuesday, but they will now take a road trip from Lagos to the Togolese capital on Wednesday instead.
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The Flying Eagles are already one day behind schedule, as their plan to travel out of Nigeria on Tuesday was scuttled at the last moment.