{"id":72162,"date":"2025-08-05T15:45:19","date_gmt":"2025-08-05T15:45:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=72162"},"modified":"2025-08-05T15:45:19","modified_gmt":"2025-08-05T15:45:19","slug":"nnl-edel-fc-confirm-merprings-move-to-abia-warriors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/08\/05\/nnl-edel-fc-confirm-merprings-move-to-abia-warriors\/","title":{"rendered":"NNL: Edel FC Confirm Merpring\u2019s Move to Abia Warriors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Fakande Oluwamayowa<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Edel FC have confirmed the departure of their top scorer, Chindi Merpring, to Abia Warriors ahead of the 2025\/2026 NPFL season.<\/p>\n<p>Merpring scored four goals during the just-concluded NNL campaign under Coach Sylvanus Okpalla, helping Edel avoid relegation.<\/p>\n<p>The striker emerged as a key target for Abia Warriors boss, Imama Amapakabo, as the club strengthens its squad for the new season and CAF Confederation Cup.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes, we\u2019re aware of Chindi\u2019s departure,\u201d Edel FC Team Manager, Myckie Chukwuebuka, told reporters. \u201cHe was our top scorer last season, and now has a big opportunity with Abia Warriors. We wish him all the best.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Fakande Oluwamayowa Edel FC have confirmed the departure of their top scorer, Chindi Merpring, to Abia Warriors ahead of the 2025\/2026 NPFL season. Merpring scored four goals during the just-concluded NNL campaign under Coach Sylvanus Okpalla, helping Edel avoid relegation. The striker emerged as a key target for Abia Warriors boss, Imama Amapakabo, as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":72163,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72162","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=72162"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72164,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72162\/revisions\/72164"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}