{"id":65664,"date":"2025-05-13T09:16:01","date_gmt":"2025-05-13T09:16:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=65664"},"modified":"2025-05-13T09:16:01","modified_gmt":"2025-05-13T09:16:01","slug":"awoniyi-goes-under-the-knife-after-painful-knock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/05\/13\/awoniyi-goes-under-the-knife-after-painful-knock\/","title":{"rendered":"Awoniyi Goes Under\u00a0the Knife After Painful Knock"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>By Njoku Chijioke<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Nottingham Forest forward Taiwo Awoniyi has undergone emergency surgery after picking up a serious abdominal injury during Sunday\u2019s Premier League clash against Leicester City.<\/p>\n<p>The Nigeria international slammed into the post while contesting a ball, raising immediate alarm from players and medics.<\/p>\n<p>Following the incident, Awoniyi was rushed for a medical check which led to urgent surgery.<\/p>\n<p>Forest&#8217;s medical team confirmed the procedure was necessary and that his recovery is now under close watch.<\/p>\n<p>His return to action remains uncertain, casting doubt over his availability for upcoming fixtures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Njoku Chijioke &nbsp; Nottingham Forest forward Taiwo Awoniyi has undergone emergency surgery after picking up a serious abdominal injury during Sunday\u2019s Premier League clash against Leicester City. The Nigeria international slammed into the post while contesting a ball, raising immediate alarm from players and medics. Following the incident, Awoniyi was rushed for a medical [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":65665,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[175],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-65664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65664","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\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65664"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65664\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65666,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65664\/revisions\/65666"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}