NIGERIA'S representatives in the 2015 CAF club competitions have been handed relatively easy opposition in the first round of both the Champions League and the Confederation Cup.
Nigeria Premier League winners, Kano Pillars will face Malakia Football Club of South Sudan in the first round and will play host to the Juba-based club in the first leg.
Malakia won the South Sudan National Cup in 2014 to represent its country in the 2015 CAF Champions League.
Nigeria's other representative in the Champions League, Enyimba of Aba, will confront Buffles of Benin Republic in the first round with the former African champions welcoming the Beninoise in the first leg.
Nigeria's two standard-bearers in the 2015 Confederation Cup competition - Dolphins of Port Harcourt and Warri Wolves - will play away in the first leg of the first round of the competition.
Dolphins will visit Leones Vegetarianos of Equatorial Guinea before the second leg in Nigeria, while the RCB of Burkina Faso will welcome Warri Wolves first.
The first legs of the preliminary round fixtures will be played between 13-15 February with the second legs two weeks later.
Meanwhile, African Champions League runners-up AS Vita Club of DR Congo were given a bye into the first round of the 2015 Confederation Cup.
Vita will face the winners of the preliminary round tie between Petite Rivière Noire from Mauritius and Mozambique's Ferroviario da Beira.
The 2014 Confederation Cup winners Al Ahly of Egypt and the runners-up Sewe Sport of Ivory Coast are both taking part in the Champions League next season.
Ivory Coast's Asec Mimoas, Zamalek of Egypt, Mali's Djoliba, South Africa's Orlando Pirates, Al Ahly Shandy from Sudan and Tunisian sides Club Africain and Etoile du Sahel were the other sides given byes.
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