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Football, a Unifying factor

Saturday, 13th October is the day Nigeria is going to have a date with the Mediterranean Knights of Libya in Group E encounter of Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) qualifier. Of late, what easily comes to mind when you hear the name Libya is war, the country has been under siege, chaos and anarchy since the ousting of their maverick ex-president Muhammad Gadaffi. It's been a tumultuous experience and the devastating effect still linger. But at a time when the country is desperately in need of a unifying factor, when the citizen need something to cheer about and make them proud of their country once again and makes them forget the seed of discord and enmity that has manifest in the country for almost a decade, football which has proven over time a means of subtle way to attain peace and unity has come in the front burner yet again to unify the otherwise deeply disintegrated people of Libya. The same feat has manifested in the past. When sectarian war was ravaging Liberia, George Weah,...
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