{"id":65126,"date":"2025-04-30T14:36:57","date_gmt":"2025-04-30T14:36:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=65126"},"modified":"2025-04-30T22:20:10","modified_gmt":"2025-04-30T22:20:10","slug":"over-50-teams-battle-in-fct-volleyball-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/04\/30\/over-50-teams-battle-in-fct-volleyball-challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"Over 50 Teams Battle in FCT Volleyball Challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Adenike Lawal<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Federal Capital Territory has kicked off the 2025 Minister\u2019s Volleyball Challenge with a record 53 teams from 33 clubs locked in a thrilling five-day contest aimed at grassroots sports revival and talent discovery.<\/p>\n<p>Held at the Moshood Abiola Stadium\u2019s Package B courts, the competition marks a major leap from last year\u2019s edition, boasting a 76 percent increase in participation.<\/p>\n<p>Chairman of the Local Organising Committee, Commodore James Pindar (Rtd.), said the goal is to scout and groom talent across Under-17, Under-21, and senior categories, forming solid teams to represent the FCT on national stages.<\/p>\n<p>All teams will receive participation grants, while top performers will go home with trophies, medals, cash prizes, and individual awards.<\/p>\n<p>The FCT volleyball calendar also promises more action with an Under-17 challenge in September and a beach volleyball contest in November.<\/p>\n<p>With matches underway, Abuja braces for a festival of spikes, blocks, and emerging stars.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Adenike Lawal The Federal Capital Territory has kicked off the 2025 Minister\u2019s Volleyball Challenge with a record 53 teams from 33 clubs locked in a thrilling five-day contest aimed at grassroots sports revival and talent discovery. Held at the Moshood Abiola Stadium\u2019s Package B courts, the competition marks a major leap from last year\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":65127,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[177,172],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-65126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-abuja-reports","category-news","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65126","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=65126"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65126\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65148,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65126\/revisions\/65148"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}