By Ighodalo Emiator:
The NFF announced on their Twitter handle that they lost their Head of Protocol Ibrahim Abubakar to gunmen earlieron Wednesday.
The senior official of Nigeria’s Football Federation (NFF), Ibrahim Abubakar, was killed in Abuja.
He will be buried according to Islamic rites in his home city of Kaduna.
The news will come as a big blow to the home-based Super Eagles who are preparing in South Africa for the African Nations Championships, and have a friendly against Angola later on Wednesday.