{"id":65731,"date":"2025-05-14T11:04:49","date_gmt":"2025-05-14T11:04:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=65731"},"modified":"2025-05-14T11:04:49","modified_gmt":"2025-05-14T11:04:49","slug":"awoniyi-in-coma-after-horror-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/05\/14\/awoniyi-in-coma-after-horror-injury\/","title":{"rendered":"Awoniyi in Coma After Horror Injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Njoku Chijioke<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Nigerian international and Nottingham Forest striker, Taiwo Awoniyi, has been placed in an induced coma following emergency surgery for a ruptured intestine sustained during a Premier League clash against Leicester City.<\/p>\n<p>The 27-year-old forward suffered the life-threatening injury after a collision with the goalpost in the dying minutes of the game.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the impact, he was allowed to continue playing until the final whistle.<\/p>\n<p>Awoniyi was rushed into surgery on Monday night. The club confirmed he is \u201crecovering well,\u201d though still in a medically induced coma to limit movement and stabilize his heart rate during recovery.<\/p>\n<p>Nottingham Forest owner Evangelos Marinakis voiced concern over the handling of the incident and stressed that Awoniyi\u2019s well-being must remain the top priority.<\/p>\n<p>While his condition is not considered fatal, the situation has raised serious questions about player safety protocols and sparked renewed calls for reform, especially in how offside decisions and in-game injuries are managed.<\/p>\n<p>The football world now watches and prays for Awoniyi\u2019s full recovery as he battles through a critical phase of healing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Njoku Chijioke Nigerian international and Nottingham Forest striker, Taiwo Awoniyi, has been placed in an induced coma following emergency surgery for a ruptured intestine sustained during a Premier League clash against Leicester City. The 27-year-old forward suffered the life-threatening injury after a collision with the goalpost in the dying minutes of the game. Despite [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":65732,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[175],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65731","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\/65731","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=65731"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65731\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65733,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65731\/revisions\/65733"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}