the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) has said the northern city will still host the
country's World Cup qualifying game with Namibia on June 02.
The city had also been picked to host the return leg of the Super Eagles' 2013 Africa
Cup of Nations qualifier with Rwanda two weeks later.
There have been fears expressed over the decision to host the games in the northern
region where religious extremist group Boko Haram has repeatedly unleashed terror
with a string of suicide bombings.
Sunday's incident believed to have been carried out by the group,has raised the debate,
but NFF president Aminu Maigari does not feel there is any cause for alarm.
"This kind of attack is not targeted against football," the NFF boss told Soccer Star.
"We are staging the match in Kaduna as part of our efforts to use football to bring
unity to the country.
"Nobody should raise unnecessary alarm."
Indeed last November the Eagles hosted Zambia in a friendly in Kaduna despite Boko
Haram's ongoing terror attacks at the time.But the unstructured nature of its operations
has many worried that there are no safe areas.
The turf of the Abuja National Stadium which is the current home of the team is in bad
shape and would require about N75m (just under half a million US dollars) to fix,a
sum which the football authorities have bulked at.
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