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Tension As Nigerian Fans Display Biafran Flag During U23 Match Against Algeria by explorer250(m): 5:29pm On Dec 06, 2015 |
Some Nigerian football fans
were on Saturday expelled
from a football stadium in
Senegal for displaying
Biafran flags.
The fans were expelled
minutes after they displayed
Biafran flags alongside
Nigerian flags at a football
match between Nigeria and
Algeria at the U-23 African
Cup of Nations holding in
Dakar, the Senegalese
capital.
There have been protests in
South-East Nigeria by Igbos
who demand for a separate
Biafran country. Biafra was
also the name adopted by
the Eastern Nigeria during
the civil war between 1967
and 1970, after which a ‘no
victor, no vanquish’ was
declared by the federal
government after Biafra was
defeated.
On Saturday, the Senegalese
football association officials
considered the display of the
Biafran flags at the Leopold
Sedar Senghor stadium “a
militant act”.
As a result, the Vice
President of the Senegalese
Football Federation, FSF,
Amadou Kane, who was in
charge of the organisation,
ordered security officials to
respond by tearing down the
Biafran flags and posters
and expelling the supporters
involved.
Senegalese FA officials said
the group took advantage of
the presence of the media at
the stadium to raise the
Biafran flag.
Dressed in T-shirts with the
Biafra logo, eye witnesses
said the group “invaded”
the left wing of the covered
pavilion to flaunt the Biafran
flag alongside that of Nigeria.
They later displayed a large
flag calling for Biafran
autonomy.
The match eventually ended
0-0 with Nigeria coming
second in Group B with five
points, behind Algeria.
Nigeria will face Senegal in
the semi-final next week
while Algeria will battle South
Africa. |
Re: Tension As Nigerian Fans Display Biafran Flag During U23 Match Against Algeria by Nobody: 5:31pm On Dec 06, 2015 |
what the hell!? |
Re: Tension As Nigerian Fans Display Biafran Flag During U23 Match Against Algeria by stanleychimezie(f): 5:37pm On Dec 06, 2015 |
Try and be current Biafra: Nigerian Supporters Are Not Banned From Senegal – Ladipo http://savinggracereporters.com/headline/biafra-nigerian-supporters-are-not-banned-from-senegal-ladipo/ |
Re: Tension As Nigerian Fans Display Biafran Flag During U23 Match Against Algeria by aphyz2709: 5:38pm On Dec 06, 2015 |
There are better ways to go about this secession. Not this futile "Gragra". |
Re: Tension As Nigerian Fans Display Biafran Flag During U23 Match Against Algeria by Mynd44: 5:40pm On Dec 06, 2015 |
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