The inspection team of FIFA led by its vice president, Jack Warner earlier schedule for April has been postponed.

A top official of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) said on Saturday that "FIFA will now be in Nigeria in the first week of May and not as originally scheduled this month."

The FIFA team is expected to visit Nine Nigerian cities vying to host the tournament and expected with in conjunction with the LOC to pick six of these cities to stage it in November.

Only the Abuja National Stadium in the capital city of Abuja and the Ijebu Ode Stadium received a FIFA pass mark when Warner's team last visited the country in January.

Nigeria hosted the FIFA World Youth Championship in 1999.