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‘How multi-nation FIFA World Cup will open up West Africa’

Speakers at the Nigeria Institute of International Affairs (NIIA) believe that a West Africa-hosted FIFA World Cup is an idea whose time has come. The idea of the sub-regional World Cup was first canvassed in 2002 after the Japan/Korea edition of the Copa du Mundo, but as feasible as it sounded, people, who didn’t see the benefits inherent in it, shot it down.