{"id":61606,"date":"2025-02-20T10:51:40","date_gmt":"2025-02-20T10:51:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=61606"},"modified":"2025-02-20T10:51:40","modified_gmt":"2025-02-20T10:51:40","slug":"ecowas-abuja-marathon-organisers-urge-runners-to-collect-kits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/02\/20\/ecowas-abuja-marathon-organisers-urge-runners-to-collect-kits\/","title":{"rendered":"ECOWAS Abuja Marathon: Organisers Urge Runners to Collect Kits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Ifeoluwa Odunayo<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Organisers of the 2025 ECOWAS Abuja International Marathon have called on registered participants to collect their race kits starting today at the Federal Secretariat Car Park, Eagles Square, Abuja.<\/p>\n<p>The marathon, set for March 1, features a half marathon and a 5km fun race. The half marathon will start and finish at the ECOWAS Commission, while the 5km race will commence at the Independence Bridge near Sahad Stores and end at the same venue.<\/p>\n<p>Race Director Gabriel Okon announced that bibs and vests must be collected at the VIO Container Booth, Federal Secretariat Car Park, from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. daily until February 28.<\/p>\n<p>Participants must present valid identification, while those sending representatives must provide an authority note, a completed entry form with a photograph, and a copy of their valid ID.<\/p>\n<p>Registration remains open until February 28 at the Athletics Federation of Nigeria (AFN) office, FCT Sports Council, and Area Councils for both local and international runners.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Ifeoluwa Odunayo Organisers of the 2025 ECOWAS Abuja International Marathon have called on registered participants to collect their race kits starting today at the Federal Secretariat Car Park, Eagles Square, Abuja. The marathon, set for March 1, features a half marathon and a 5km fun race. The half marathon will start and finish at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":61607,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-abuja-reports"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61606","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=61606"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61606\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61608,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61606\/revisions\/61608"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}