{"id":24305,"date":"2014-06-12T12:08:13","date_gmt":"2014-06-12T12:08:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=24305"},"modified":"2014-06-12T12:08:13","modified_gmt":"2014-06-12T12:08:13","slug":"bomb-threat-curtails-nigeria-world-cup-viewings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2014\/06\/bomb-threat-curtails-nigeria-world-cup-viewings\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Bomb threat’ curtails Nigeria World Cup viewings"},"content":{"rendered":"
Authorities in Nigeria’s north-eastern state of Adamawa have ordered all venues planning to screen live coverage of the football World Cup to close.<\/p>\n
They say they have received intelligence of planned bomb attacks during the competition, which opens in Brazil on Thursday.<\/p>\n
Adamawa is one of the states badly affected by Islamist violence.<\/p>\n
Open-air viewing centres – where people pay to watch live football – are popular throughout Nigeria.<\/p>\n
“Our action is not to stop Nigerians… watching the World Cup. It is to protect their lives,” Brig-Gen Nicholas Rogers was quoted by the AFP agency as saying on Wednesday in Yola, the capital of Adamawa.<\/p>\n