The race to host the 2014 Commonwealth Games enters the last lap this week as the five-man judging panel arrives in Scotland.
Their verdicts will be key when the 71 members vote between Glasgow and Nigeria's Abuja. Almost twomillion Scots back our bid on the internet but most Nigerians living on a dollar a day do not share that same enthusiasm.
IT is heralded as Africa's fastest growing city, the digital capital of Nigeria...and city leaders boast confidently it will be the next host of the Commonwealth Games.
Last week Abuja showcased its impressive £70million stadium, velodrome and pool to the men who help decide whether it or Glasgow will win the 2014 Games bid.
Nigeria's sports minister Bala Kaole reckons their bid is "in the bag".
He even believes he has convinced the judging team Abuja is safer and more prosperous than Glasgow.
But airbrushed out of their glossy and colourful campaign is the plight of thousands of ordinary Africansmade homeless and left poverty-stricken by the Nigerian government's obession with making Abuja the jewel in the crown.
Less than a mile from these pristine facilities, we saw locals struggle to carve their day's food from the carcass of a goat as a man stood nearby wielding an AK-47 machine gun - for his own safety.
And in the Ushafa settlement, a few miles outside the city gates, families live in makeshift mud huts 20 years after they were forced from the city centre to make way for exclusive new developments.
Some went from the very land on which the 60,000-seat national stadium - centrepiece of this shiny new metropolis - now stands.
The displaced masses of the Bwari tribe were promised new homes and compensation - which never came.
They live in mud huts and have to steal water from a nearby reservoir which supplies the city they once called home.
The Abuja Games bid is costing more than £250million but the government will not stretch to the £10,000 cost of a borehole which would give the tribe the water they need.
Girls as young as four carry buckets of scorching sand on their heads to the village so their parents can make the bricks that will give shelter from the sun.
The searing hot grains smear their faces and leave tiny little scars and rivulets on their foreheads.
His Royal Highness Alhaji Mohammabu Baba, chief of the Bwari people, wants the world to know what has happened.
And he is desperate that the authorities who moved his people will not benefit from the lucrative kudos the Games would bring.
In a baking hot room in the centre of a "village" with no roads, sanitation or running water, he sat in a room decorated only with peeling photos of a meeting he held with Bill Clinton in 2000.
The then US President was on a whistlestop tour of Africa and had personally requested a meeting.
Chief Baba wants the committee judging the Commonwealth Games bids to see the plight of his people - not just the shiny new wealth of Abuja.
He said: "They are spending millions of pounds on the bid for these games while the people here go without water.
"The only good thing about the Games is that the world might see how we are forced to live "Tell the world what has happened to my people.
"Please tell everyone. Theywant to bring the games to Abuja. It is our land and we were moved with no compensation - nothing. We have lived like this ever since.
"President Clinton came here and promised to help. We are told he sent money but it never got here.
"Clinton demanded to speak to the chief of Abuja and they had to bring him to me.
"I am the chief of Abuja and the people who lived there. We have no water - nothing. We are forgotten.
"Our people have no food, water, money.
"Tell everyone, tell the committee to come and see how we live."
At least 300,000 Bwari tribespeople were forcibly removed in the early 1980s as Nigeria sought to build a modern capital to house the nation's divided sects and tribes.
They now have nothing and no means to improve their circumstances. They ask for money but also for pens and notebooks.
Locals regularly queue for two days, sleeping in their cars, just to fill up their tanks in this sixth-biggest oil producer in the world.
Just one kilometre away, a British company, Biwater, are extending a massive dam which will hold water for the oil rich residents 10 kilometres away.
Ushafa villagers know they could be shot on sight by police for going there to take water.
In another tiny settlement in the shadow of the stadium, hundreds of Bwari tribespeople have evaded the bulldozers and live less than a mile fromthe stadium that is the showpiece of the Games bid.
All around lies the devastation of the clearances, rubble lying where once there were fields of corn.
The people in this last outpost against the state, in all less than 1000, are all starving.
The children have distended tummies and their only toilet is a rubbish heap yards from their hovels.
They are determined to stay in their own land and have their native Bwari rights affirmed by the Nigerian state.
Aman with an AK-47 stood guard at the entrance to the hamlet as other men sold goat meat under the shade of a tree.
When I asked him why he had the weapon, he replied: "Security."
When I asked if he was employed by the government he shook his head, adding: "My security." He stood less than 500 yards from the main entrance to Nigeria's National Stadium.
The contrast with the display by the Abuja organisers could not be more marked.
The city centre boasts the same multimillion-pound shopping malls seen in US and European cities.
On offer are the latest Spider-Man DVD and the new Beyonce album.
But these are confined to the superrich and shoppers browse under the gaze of gun-wielding security guards.
The people of the village have never heard of Beyonce and are not allowed near these malls.
Their daily lives are about the struggle to get enough water and food.
John Tierney, head of the Commonwealth Games Bid Evaluation Commission, and other delegates arrive in Glasgow this week.
The organisers of the Glasgow bid will be out to impress, and tens of thousands of sports fans will be willing them to give the Games to Glasgow.
Thousands of miles away, few of the displaced tribespeople in Abuja will be aware of this latest step towards deciding the destination of the Games. They can only hope the delegates, taken on a carefully stage-managed tour of their home city, will finally hear their voices and consider their plight.
The Abuja bid team shrug off the scandal of the problems faced by Nigeria's poor but admit they kept delegates away from Ashafa.
A spokesman said: "The situation with the Bwari people has been adequately addressed by the administration.
These things take time.
"These people are expecting to get money but it has to go through a process. They made way for the city and there has now been a change in administration. So maybe now they will get their money.
"This is not something for the bid team to address. The government is going to do something about this. The process to get them resettled and compensated is ongoing but yes, it is taking some time.
"It was a different government which asked them to leave their land but we hope that as the deadline for the bid gets closer these things can be resolved.
"The evaluation committee were impressed with what we have on the ground and told us about improvements we have to make to be ready, in terms of infrastructure and transport.
"The government has plans to build a new rail system for the city. The committee were very satisfied but, of course, they advised we would need to do some work between now and 2014.
"We did not take them to Ushafa - why would we?"
Glasgow v Abuja
Population - 600,000
Economy - The retail, commerce and manufacturing bases in the city account for almost one third of Scotland's £86.3billion gross domestic product.
Climate - The summer Games would be in weather best described as "changeable".
Stadia - There are two internationalclass athletics venues in Kelvin Hall International Sports Arena and Scotstoun Stadium, plus football grounds Celtic Park, Ibrox Stadium and Hampden Park. The SECC and Kelvingrove Park would also be used.
Transport Links - Two international airports welcome three million visitors every year. Established subway, rail and bus network.
Hotels - Luxury hotels include the Hilton, the Marriot and the Radisson.
Previous experience - won acclaim for the way it hosted this year's UEFA Cup Final and the Champions League Final in 2003. Also hosted the Special Olympics in 2005.
Population - 1,800,000
Economy - A significant portion of Nigeria's Û83.6billion economy is generated in Abuja, which is in the middle of extensive privatisation. One in three people earn less than one dollar a day.
Climate - Temperatures in Abuja are as high as 36C.
Stadia - Abuja National Stadium is the venue for international football matches and also played an integral part in the country's hosting of the All-Africa Games.
Transport links - Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport serves two million customers every year. It is undergoing a Û60million development and a tram system is planned for the games
Hotels - Nicon Hilton Hotel, Abuja Sheraton Hotel and Protea Hotel. Apo Apartments are among the hospitality facilities on offer for accommodating delegates and press from the Commonwealth
Previous experience - Hosted the All-Africa Games in 2003, when it catered for more than 7000 athletes.
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