Nigerians told to quit
(N.Z. Press Assn —CopurtgM) LONDON. Nigeria has withdrawn from the world squash team championships, according to an Agence France-Presse message. Commander Bolaji Sajinrin, the team manager, received a telephone call from the Nigerian High Commission just before the team was due to play an opening pool match against the United States at Cheltenham, and was t.old, with his four players, to return to London. The executive committee of the Supreme Council for Sport in Africa in Nairobi last W'eek told member countries to ban the championships. Nigeria was provisionally accepted into the council last week.
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Press, Volume CXVI, Issue 34146, 6 May 1976, Page 8
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