{"id":61938,"date":"2025-03-02T03:07:06","date_gmt":"2025-03-02T03:07:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=61938"},"modified":"2025-03-02T03:07:06","modified_gmt":"2025-03-02T03:07:06","slug":"fct-school-sports-festival-resumes-after-facility-hurdle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/03\/02\/fct-school-sports-festival-resumes-after-facility-hurdle\/","title":{"rendered":"FCT School Sports Festival Resumes After Facility Hurdle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Ade Iyamoye\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The 2025 Nyesom Wike FCT School Sports Festival is set to resume on Tuesday, at the MKO Abiola National Stadium, Abuja, following last-minute intervention by the National Sports Commission (NSC).<\/p>\n<p>Director of School Sports in the FCT, Mallam Hashimu Adamu Ojah, confirmed that uncertainties over stadium access had briefly stalled Track and Field events.<\/p>\n<p>However, NSC Chairman Mallam Shehu Dikko swiftly directed stadium management to grant immediate access, clearing the road for competitions to proceed.<\/p>\n<p>While some events will be rescheduled, Board Games like Chess, Scrabble, Ludo, and Ayo remain unaffected.<\/p>\n<p>The festival\u2019s Grand Finale on February 27 will feature the highly anticipated Blue Riband races and relays.<\/p>\n<p>Revived last year after a 28-year hiatus, the FCT School Sports Festival continues to foster youth development in sports, drawing participation from primary and secondary school students across the region.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Ade Iyamoye\u00a0 The 2025 Nyesom Wike FCT School Sports Festival is set to resume on Tuesday, at the MKO Abiola National Stadium, Abuja, following last-minute intervention by the National Sports Commission (NSC). Director of School Sports in the FCT, Mallam Hashimu Adamu Ojah, confirmed that uncertainties over stadium access had briefly stalled Track and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":61939,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61938","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=61938"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61938\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61940,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61938\/revisions\/61940"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}