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Burkinabe Officials Arrive
The centre referee and his assistants for Saturday’s match between Nigeria and Guinea, all from Burkina Faso arrived in Nigeria Wednesday night and are expected in Abuja Thursday morning.

Mr. Serge Ilboudo will be centre referee for the game while Adolphe Pare will be 1st Assistant Referee and Lalama Diaby will serve as the 2nd Assistant Referee.

The fourth official is Nigerian Joshua Amao.

The Burkinabe officials flew into Nigeria aboard an Air Nigeria flight from Ouagadougou and will also be airlifted to Abuja on Thursday morning by Air Nigeria.

The same airline is flying the Match Commissioner, Mr. Laryea Louis from Ghana on Thursday.



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