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Nigeria Drawn To Face Ghana In Playoffs For Qatar 2022 World Cup

Nigeria’s Super Eagles have been drawn against eternal rivals, Black Stars of Ghana in the Playoff draws of the Qatar 2022 FIFA World Cup qualifiers.

The draw ceremony for the final round of qualifiers of the Qatar 2022 FIFA World Cup was held in Douala, Cameroon on Saturday evening.

In other parings, Egypt will do battle with Senegal, Cameroon drawn against Algeria, DR Congo and Morocco will face off, just Mali have Nigeria’s opponents in Sunday’s Africa Cup of Nations round of 16 stage, the Carthage Eagles of Tunisia to contend with for the World Cup ticket.

The play-off games will hold on a home and away basis as match-dates will be staged March 24-29.

The five highest ranked teams will play away before hosting their opponents in the reverse fixture.

Izuchukwu Okosi

Izuchukwu Okosi is a Nigerian sports and entertainment journalist with two decades of experience in the media industry having begun his media journey in 2002 as an intern at Mundial Sports International (MSI) and Africa Independent Television (AIT), owners of Daar Communications Plc. In October 2004, Okosi joined Complete Communications Limited, publishers of Complete Sports newspaper and Complete Football magazine as a reporter and later script writer for the Complete Sports studio. He worked there for 13 years until October 2017. Okosi also worked various times as Correspondent, Content creator and Editor at Sports Market International Magazine, Opera News, All Nigeria Soccer Media and Iconic Media Watch. He also undertook freelance writing gigs for some local and international organizations. Okosi is a member of the Actors Guild of Nigeria (AGN), Association of Movie Producers (AMP), Association of Voiceover Artistes of Nigeria (AVOA), Sports Writers Association of Nigeria (SWAN) and Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ). He has been part of cast in some Nollywood movies and radio dramas including Blood Money 2, Scores To Settle, Dead End 2, Another Campus Tale and Battle Line. Aside mainstream media and the entertainment industry, he has interests in scouting/unearthing of talents in the sports and creative sectors, exports business and property development.