{"id":70304,"date":"2025-07-11T14:20:51","date_gmt":"2025-07-11T14:20:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=70304"},"modified":"2025-07-11T14:20:51","modified_gmt":"2025-07-11T14:20:51","slug":"wafcon-2024-ajibade-hails-hard-fought-win-over-decent-botswana-side","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/07\/11\/wafcon-2024-ajibade-hails-hard-fought-win-over-decent-botswana-side\/","title":{"rendered":"WAFCON 2024: Ajibade Hails Hard-Fought Win Over \u2018Decent\u2019 Botswana Side"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Fakande Oluwamayowa<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Super Falcons captain, Rasheedat Ajibade, has expressed delight over Nigeria\u2019s narrow 1-0 victory against Botswana at the ongoing 2024 Women\u2019s Africa Cup of Nations (WAFCON), in Morocco.<\/p>\n<p>Chiwendu Ihezuo netted the decisive goal late in the keenly contested match on Thursday night, sealing Nigeria\u2019s place in the quarter-finals.<\/p>\n<p>Ajibade acknowledged the resilience of the Mares, describing the encounter as tough and praising Botswana\u2019s performance.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBotswana is a good side, and they showed that in this game,\u201d Ajibade told journalists after the match. \u201cNo team should be underrated in this tournament. Every team is well managed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She added, \u201cIt was a very challenging game for us, and we\u2019re grateful to have secured the victory.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Nigeria, nine-time champions of the tournament, will now shift focus to the quarter-final stage as they continue their quest for a 10th WAFCON title.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Fakande Oluwamayowa Super Falcons captain, Rasheedat Ajibade, has expressed delight over Nigeria\u2019s narrow 1-0 victory against Botswana at the ongoing 2024 Women\u2019s Africa Cup of Nations (WAFCON), in Morocco. Chiwendu Ihezuo netted the decisive goal late in the keenly contested match on Thursday night, sealing Nigeria\u2019s place in the quarter-finals. Ajibade acknowledged the resilience [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":70305,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-70304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70304","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=70304"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70304\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70306,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70304\/revisions\/70306"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}