{"id":182952,"date":"2024-10-21T00:36:13","date_gmt":"2024-10-20T22:36:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/libya\/nigeria-libya-libya-threatens-legal-action-after-nigeria-pulls-out-of-football-qualifier\/"},"modified":"2024-10-21T00:36:13","modified_gmt":"2024-10-20T22:36:13","slug":"nigeria-libya-libya-threatens-legal-action-after-nigeria-pulls-out-of-football-qualifier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/libya\/nigeria-libya-libya-threatens-legal-action-after-nigeria-pulls-out-of-football-qualifier\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria\/Libya: Libya Threatens Legal Action After Nigeria Pulls Out of Football Qualifier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">Abuja, Nigeria \u2014 The Libyan Football Federation (LFF) is criticizing Nigeria&#8217;s decision to withdraw from the 2025 AFCON qualifier in Libya and is threatening to take legal action.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"35\">On Monday, Nigeria&#8217;s national football team the Super Eagles walked off the fixture citing safety concerns after being stranded at a local airport in Libya without food and internet access for more than 16 hours.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"20\">Tuesday&#8217;s statement by the LFF accused its Nigerian counterpart, the Nigerian Football Federation (NFF) of&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202410160015.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 North Africa <a title=\"Libya\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/north-africa\/libya\/\">Libya<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abuja, Nigeria \u2014 The Libyan Football Federation (LFF) is criticizing Nigeria&#8217;s decision to withdraw from the 2025 AFCON qualifier in Libya and is threatening to take legal action. On Monday, Nigeria&#8217;s national football team the Super Eagles walked off the fixture citing safety concerns after being stranded at a local airport in Libya without food [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":182953,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00430761:6a82f8a74b681158d55f93554a43b42e:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[891],"tags":[6394,258,256,3299,6393,4711,892,257,4687,18235,10038,8496,254,10413],"class_list":["post-182952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-libya","tag-action","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-football","tag-legal","tag-libya","tag-libya-news","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigerialibya","tag-pulls","tag-qualifier","tag-south-africa-today","tag-threatens"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00430761:6a82f8a74b681158d55f93554a43b42e:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182952","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182952\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/182953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}