{"id":68628,"date":"2025-06-20T10:49:20","date_gmt":"2025-06-20T10:49:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=68628"},"modified":"2025-06-20T10:49:20","modified_gmt":"2025-06-20T10:49:20","slug":"african-nations-super-eagles-to-play-group-b-matches-in-zanzibar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/06\/20\/african-nations-super-eagles-to-play-group-b-matches-in-zanzibar\/","title":{"rendered":"African Nations: Super Eagles to Play Group B Matches in Zanzibar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Njoku Chijioke<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Nigeria\u2019s home-based Super Eagles will play their Group B fixtures of the 8th African Nations Championship in Zanzibar, an island region of Tanzania.<\/p>\n<p>The team has been drawn alongside defending champions Senegal, Congo, and Sudan.<\/p>\n<p>Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda, joint hosts of the 2027 Africa Cup of Nations, will also co-host this year\u2019s African Nations Championship as part of their preparation for the continental finals.<\/p>\n<p>All Group B matches involving Nigeria will take place in Zanzibar, while the tournament\u2019s opening game will be held at the Benjamin Mkapa Stadium in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.<\/p>\n<p>Uganda will host the third and fourth matches at the Mandela Stadium in Kampala, and the final will take place at the Moi International Sports Centre in Nairobi, Kenya, on August 30.<\/p>\n<p>The upcoming championship is expected to serve as a test of the host countries\u2019 readiness for 2027, offering them the opportunity to fine-tune logistics, infrastructure, and general tournament organization.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Njoku Chijioke &nbsp; Nigeria\u2019s home-based Super Eagles will play their Group B fixtures of the 8th African Nations Championship in Zanzibar, an island region of Tanzania. The team has been drawn alongside defending champions Senegal, Congo, and Sudan. Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda, joint hosts of the 2027 Africa Cup of Nations, will also co-host [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":68629,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[175],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68628","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\/68628","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\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68628"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68628\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68630,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68628\/revisions\/68630"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}