South Africans created their own flight constraints, says NFF

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By Guardian Nigeria

07 June 2024 | 3:20 americium

The Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) has said that the South African delegation has nary crushed to outcry foul for passing the nighttime successful Port Harcourt, Wednesday, aft arriving successful Nigeria.

The squad lone flew into Uyo yesterday morning. NFF’s Protocol chief, Emmanuel Ayanbunmi, said the South African Football Association informed the NFF that its chartered craft would depart South Africa connected Wednesday greeting by 8.00 a.m. and onshore successful Lagos to acquisition migration formalities earlier proceeding to Uyo.

Ayanbunmi said the occupation has thing to bash with the NFF. He said arsenic astatine the clip they said they were taking off, it took them a further 5 hours to really depart from South Africa.

We were not informed. We had informed officials of the Nigeria Immigration Service and different applicable agencies successful Lagos to expedite enactment connected the formalities for them.

“It was little than 2 hours to landing that they contacted america to accidental that the landing close they got was for Port Harcourt International Airport and not the MMIA successful Lagos.

“We had to rapidly get successful interaction with officials of NMS and different agencies successful Port Harcourt and mobilise radical to guarantee creaseless formalities for them.

“Having completed each migration formalities, they wanted to instrumentality disconnected for Uyo, but were informed that the Obong Victor Attah Airport lone operates from sunrise to sunset, and truthful that was not possible. The NFF instantly mobilised resources for them to comfortably walk the nighttime successful Port Harcourt.”

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