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Coach Sunday Oliseh had proposed the team set up a training camp in Tanzania but officials of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) swerved due to the fact that Tanzania have no standard artificial pitch, which will be what will be used in Rwanda.
According to a release signed by Ademola Olajire, the NFF media director, the Super Eagles set up a training base in Pretoria later this month.
Nigeria are appearing for their second CHAN after they debuted at the tournament reserved for players featuring in their various home leagues.
The team finished 3rd at the last edition and will be hoping to do better next year when the 2016 edition will be staged in Rwanda.
Nigeria are drawn alongside Niger, Tunisia and Guinea. The competition kicks off on January 16, 2016 in Kigali.
The creation of the African Nations Championship was a response to the desire to revive or strengthen national competitions regularly weakened by a mass exodus of top players who leave their home countries to play for foreign teams which will pay more and get them more media coverage.
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