A delegation from English Premier League club Arsenal arrived Nigeria on Monday ahead of a playing tour next summer. Led by the club’s Managing Director Angus Kaneer, the team arrived in Lagos on Monday morning and proceeded to Abuja for a meeting with the Nigeria Football Federation.

”The Arsenal officials arrived in Lagos this morning, and left for Abuja immediately,” Shehu Dikko, one of the major finainciers of the tour, told KickOffNigeria.com.

”They are here to inspect facilities and arrange logistics plus security in anticipation of the proposed summer tour in July 2012,” Shehu Dikko of Inter-Projects Associates, one of the organisers along with Danjan Sports Consult, said.