The chairman of Nigerian top-flight football club Adamawa United on Friday criticised the planned restart of the country's league season as the number of coronavirus cases continues to rise.
COVID-19 has infected more than 7,000 people and claimed 211 lives in Africa's most populous nation of 200 million inhabitants.
"Nigeria league to return under this pandemic? That will be shocking, it will be absurd," Emma Zira told AFP.
"Whoever is preparing for the league to return now does not love football.
"Do we have the facilities to restart the league especially when the pandemic is growing by the day and our health facilities are being stretched every day? "And we haven't even reached the peak (of the outbreak)."
"Rather we should support the government to defeat this pandemic and not aid its spread."
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