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The absence of Nigerian referees on the official match officials list for the 2023 AFCON scheduled for Cote d’Ivoire in January 2024 upset John Owan-Enoh, Minister of Sports Development.
The minister promised to hold engagements with relevant stakeholders, such as the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF), and Nigeria Referees Association (NRA), among others, to reverse the trend.
“At the last AFCON (2021), Nigeria only had one assistant referee listed amongst the match officials. Two years prior, we didn’t have any centre referees too.
“Going into the next AFCON (2023), we still won’t have any Nigerian officials. I am going to interrogate this matter.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that CAF on Tuesday unveiled 85 referees, comprising centre referees, assistant referees, VARs, and technical instructors, for the 2023 AFCON, and no Nigerian official was included.
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