/ 24 January 1999

NIGERIA UNDEFEATED

GARBA Lawal and Finidi George scored to give Nigeria a 2-0 victory over Burundi on Saturday and moved the 1996 champions to the top of Group 5 in African Cup qualifying. The 1994 champions, who withdrew the week before the 1996 tournament and were banned from the 1998 finals because of it, improved to 1-1-0 and four points, one ahead of Burundi. The match was one of four Saturday, part of a slate of 13 scheduled for the weekend in African Cup qualifying play. The Sierra Leone-Togo match has been postponed indefinitely due to the civil war in the West African nation.