{"id":64880,"date":"2025-04-26T13:52:12","date_gmt":"2025-04-26T13:52:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=64880"},"modified":"2025-04-26T13:52:12","modified_gmt":"2025-04-26T13:52:12","slug":"arokodare-onyedika-eye-top-african-prize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/04\/26\/arokodare-onyedika-eye-top-african-prize\/","title":{"rendered":"Arokodare, Onyedika Eye Top African Prize"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Njoku Chijioke<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Nigerian football stars Tolu Arokodare and Raphael Onyedika have been nominated for the prestigious Ebony Shoe award, given to the best African player or player of African descent in the Belgian Pro League.<\/p>\n<p>Arokodare delivered a stellar season for KRC Genk, netting twenty goals and providing five assists in thirty five league matches.<\/p>\n<p>Onyedika also impressed with Club Brugge, scoring twice and assisting twice in forty seven appearances, helping his team reach the UEFA Champions League quarterfinals.<\/p>\n<p>Other contenders for the award include Promise David of Union Saint Gillloise, Noah Sadki of the Democratic Republic of Congo, and Morocco winger Zakaria El Ouahdi.<\/p>\n<p>Nigeria boasts a rich history with the Ebony Shoe, with past winners such as Daniel Amokachi, Victor Ikpeba, Godwin Okpara, Celestine Babayaro, and Paul Onuachu.<\/p>\n<p>The winner will be unveiled during a ceremony in Brussels on May twelve.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Njoku Chijioke Nigerian football stars Tolu Arokodare and Raphael Onyedika have been nominated for the prestigious Ebony Shoe award, given to the best African player or player of African descent in the Belgian Pro League. Arokodare delivered a stellar season for KRC Genk, netting twenty goals and providing five assists in thirty five league [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":64881,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[175],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64880","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\/64880","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=64880"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64880\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64882,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64880\/revisions\/64882"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}