Nigeria have seen hopes of hosting the African
Cup of Nations in 2013 dashed following the
decision of the Confederation of African Football
(CAF) to allow a swap between Libya and South
Africa for the 2013 and 2017 games.
Last month, the Nigeria Football Federation
challenged CAF to hand it the hosting rights to the
2013 games considering the ongoing civil war in
Libya, since it was placed on standby by the
continental body while announcing the hosting
rights in 2006.
South Africa had made a separate arrangement
with the Libyan federation to take charge of the
games whiles Libya could then host the 2017
tournament instead.
Even though Caf denied knowledge of the
previous agreement between both countries, it
announced on Wednesday that the swap will
now take place.
The continental body also decided that Namibia
would host the 2014 African Women’s
Championship, Niger would host the 2015 Caf
Under-17 Championship, Madagascar the 2017
U-17 Championship and Senegal would host the
2015 U-20 Championship.


continental body also decided that Namibia
would host the 2014 African Women’s
Championship, Niger would host the 2015 Caf
Under-17 Championship, Madagascar the 2017
U-17 Championship and Senegal would host the
2015 U-20 Championship.

Like how Nigeria tried to hand back the right to host the U17 with months to go which got bot Sepp Blatter and Hayatou running like Headless chickens , and you think CAF would give Nigeria the chance to host anything as little as an inter-road football match? no way