The Nigeria Football Federation(NFF) has frowned at the incident that occurred to the Super Falcons on arrival from Abidjan and apologized.
Officials from the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) had a fracas with players and officials of the Super Falcons over COVID-19 test.
The contingent were delayed for over three hours at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja on arrival from Abidjan on Thursday morning.
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NFF General Secretary, Dr Mohammed Sanusi in a statement described the incident as unfortunate and said they have apologized to the players and officials.
Sanusi, said: “It was an unfortunate incident, because we had our protocol officers on ground at the airport and they did the needful before the team arrived.
“We are a responsible organization and the various National Teams have been going out and returning to Nigeria since these covid19 protocols, procedures and guidelines started. We have never been caught napping.
“The issue had to do with covid19 protocols and we had no control over how things would be approached by the officials in charge at the airport each time.
” In this particular case, we fulfilled our part of the requirements.
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“However, some other group of Individuals arrived at the same time as the Super Falcons’ contingent and were bent on circumventing the process, and this compelled the health officials to adopt stern measures and even lock up some of their offices.
“It was beyond us, but we have already apologized to our players and officials over this incident.”
The Super Falcons defeated the Lady Elephant of Cote D’Ivoire 3-0 aggregate to book their ticket for this year’s Africa Women Cup of Nations to be hosted by Morroco.