{"id":60119,"date":"2025-01-29T10:25:32","date_gmt":"2025-01-29T10:25:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=60119"},"modified":"2025-01-29T10:25:32","modified_gmt":"2025-01-29T10:25:32","slug":"victor-boniface-becomes-highest-paid-nigerian-star-with-al-nassr-move","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/01\/29\/victor-boniface-becomes-highest-paid-nigerian-star-with-al-nassr-move\/","title":{"rendered":"Victor Boniface Becomes Highest-Paid Nigerian Star with Al Nassr Move"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Oluwamayowa Fakande<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Victor Boniface has become the highest-earning Nigerian footballer after agreeing to a lucrative transfer to Saudi Arabian club Al Nassr, earning \u20ac15 million annually.<\/p>\n<p>The 24-year-old striker surpasses fellow Super Eagles star Victor Osimhen, who earns \u20ac12 million a year.<\/p>\n<p>Bayer Leverkusen, his former club, will receive over \u20ac60 million for the transfer\u2014triple what they paid for him in 2023.<\/p>\n<p>Boniface will join global icons Cristiano Ronaldo and Sadio Mane at Al Nassr.<\/p>\n<p>The deal is now official, with Boniface having passed his medical and completed the transfer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Oluwamayowa Fakande Victor Boniface has become the highest-earning Nigerian footballer after agreeing to a lucrative transfer to Saudi Arabian club Al Nassr, earning \u20ac15 million annually. The 24-year-old striker surpasses fellow Super Eagles star Victor Osimhen, who earns \u20ac12 million a year. Bayer Leverkusen, his former club, will receive over \u20ac60 million for the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":60120,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[175],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60119","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\/60119","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\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60119"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60121,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60119\/revisions\/60121"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}