{"id":64806,"date":"2025-04-25T12:34:41","date_gmt":"2025-04-25T12:34:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=64806"},"modified":"2025-04-25T12:34:41","modified_gmt":"2025-04-25T12:34:41","slug":"nigeria-shines-with-medal-haul-in-mauritius","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/04\/25\/nigeria-shines-with-medal-haul-in-mauritius\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria Shines with Medal Haul in Mauritius"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>By Njoku Chijioke<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Team Nigeria has taken the spotlight at the African Senior Weightlifting Championship in Mauritius, finishing the opening day as the best performing team with a commanding medal sweep.<\/p>\n<p>The lifters scooped an impressive twelve medals \u2014 seven gold, four silver, and one bronze \u2014 marking a strong statement of intent from the Nigerian camp.<\/p>\n<p>Rafiatu Lawal and Didih Onome stole the show, each clinching three gold medals in the 59kg and 55kg categories respectively.<\/p>\n<p>Their powerful performances set the tone for a thrilling start to Nigeria&#8217;s campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Edidiong Joseph added to the medal count with one gold and two silver medals in the 73kg event, reinforcing Nigeria&#8217;s dominance on the stage.<\/p>\n<p>The championship continues until April 28, with Sarah Ovayioza and Imoleayo Ayodele expected to raise the stakes further when they compete on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>In recognition of the athletes\u2019 heroics, four lifters have been upgraded to Category A of the Elite Athletes Programme.<\/p>\n<p>The upgrade comes with training grants worth twenty thousand dollars and additional incentives to fuel their push for global recognition.<\/p>\n<p>With Nigeria already setting the pace, hopes remain high for a golden finish to the championship.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Njoku Chijioke Team Nigeria has taken the spotlight at the African Senior Weightlifting Championship in Mauritius, finishing the opening day as the best performing team with a commanding medal sweep. The lifters scooped an impressive twelve medals \u2014 seven gold, four silver, and one bronze \u2014 marking a strong statement of intent from the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":64829,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[175],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64806","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\/64806","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\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64806"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64806\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64830,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64806\/revisions\/64830"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}