{"id":16046,"date":"2024-01-23T14:10:10","date_gmt":"2024-01-23T14:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=16046"},"modified":"2024-01-23T14:10:10","modified_gmt":"2024-01-23T14:10:10","slug":"beach-volleyball-nigeria-picks-ticket-to-13th-african-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2024\/01\/23\/beach-volleyball-nigeria-picks-ticket-to-13th-african-games\/","title":{"rendered":"Beach Volleyball: Nigeria Picks Ticket To 13th African Games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nigeria men and women\u2019s beach volleyball teams have qualified for the 13th African Games in Ghana.<\/p>\n<p>The 13th African Games is scheduled for 8th to 23rd March, 2024 in Accra, Kumasi and Cape Coast in Ghana.<\/p>\n<p>The pair of Esther Mbah and Pamela Bawa recorded a 100% winning record in the women\u2019s category beating Burkina Faso 2-0 (21-12, 21-10), Benin Republic 2-0 (21-6, 21-13) and Cote d\u2019Ivoire 2-0 (21-6, 21-6) to finish first position.<\/p>\n<p>The pair of Hilary Simon and Obayemi Ogunshina recorded three wins against Burkina Faso 2-0 (21-15, 21-11), Togo 2-1 (15-21, 21-13, 21-13) and Cote d\u2019Ivoire 2-1 (16-21, 21-17, 15-13) losing to Benin Republic 2-1 (21-14, 21-23, 15-21).<\/p>\n<p>The coach of Nigeria women\u2019s team Kayode Ajilore commended the resilient spirit of the players for ensuring the nation qualifies for the African Games.<\/p>\n<p>He praised the Nigeria Volleyball Federation led by Engineer Musa Nimrod for supporting the dreams of the young players.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nigeria men and women\u2019s beach volleyball teams have qualified for the 13th African Games in Ghana. The 13th African Games is scheduled for 8th to 23rd March, 2024 in Accra, Kumasi and Cape Coast in Ghana. The pair of Esther Mbah and Pamela Bawa recorded a 100% winning record in the women\u2019s category beating Burkina [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":16050,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[175],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16046"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16046\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16052,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16046\/revisions\/16052"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}