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Nigerian soccer joins video game big league

By Reuters
20 July 2022   |   3:18 pm
After three years of tinkering and writing hundreds of lines of code, Nigerian coder Victor Daniyan has launched what he says is the first African football video game - Vikseen Virtual.

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