Nigeria: How Football Can Tackle Boko Haram - Toro

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Former General Secretary of the then Nigeria Football Association, Malam Ahmed Sani Toro believes if youths in northern Nigeria are positively engaged in sports, their attention would shift away from the activities of Boko Haram as he said they would not remember to indulge in most of the social vices that are threatening the corporate existence of the north. He told Shot! that an idle hand is always the devil's workshop. Excerpts:

Hon. how worried are you that the activities linked with Boko Haram would have adverse effect on football and sports in general in the north?

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