The Super Eagles will return to the country in the early hours of Friday following the team’s programme of departure, which is on Thursday afternoon.
Sources said that a chartered flight will take the players back on the six-hour flight from Cairo.
The players celebrated their bronze medal feat at their Le Meridian Heliopolis hotel abode till early hours of Thursday. The players and the officials will leave for Nigeria in the afternoon to rejoin their families having been away from them for six weeks since their various clubs’ duties ended