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FIFA Mourns Dead Calabar Fans

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World football governing body, FIFA, has joined others in mourning the football fans that died in Calabar, South Eastern Nigeria on Thursday night when a high tension electrical cable fell on the building housing the view centre where they were watching a Europa League match.
The condolence message is coming on the heels of earlier ones by Manchester United, the Federal Government of Nigeria and the Nigeria Football Federation.
FIFA’s message is contained in the twit released from the body’s official handle. It reads: “FIFA is deeply saddened by the deaths of several football fans in Calabar & offer our deepest condolences to family & friends of the victims.”

Kunle Solaja is the author of landmark books on sports and journalism as well as being a multiple award-winning journalist and editor of long standing. He is easily Nigeria’s foremost soccer diarist and Africa's most capped FIFA World Cup journalist, having attended all FIFA World Cup finals from Italia ’90 to Qatar 2022. He was honoured at the Qatar 2022 World Cup by FIFA and AIPS.

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