{"id":72885,"date":"2025-08-12T12:05:58","date_gmt":"2025-08-12T12:05:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=72885"},"modified":"2025-08-12T12:05:58","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T12:05:58","slug":"striker-sadiq-umar-el-rufai-take-over-rancher-bees-fc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/08\/12\/striker-sadiq-umar-el-rufai-take-over-rancher-bees-fc\/","title":{"rendered":"Striker Sadiq Umar, El-Rufai Take Over Rancher Bees FC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Njoku Chijioke<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Nigerian football star and Super Eagles striker Sadiq Umar, alongside Hon. Bello El-Rufai, member of the House of Representatives for Kaduna North, have officially acquired Rancher Bees FC, a historic football club based in Kaduna.<\/p>\n<p>The team is set to compete in the Nigeria National League (NNL), in the upcoming season.<\/p>\n<p>Sadiq Umar expressed enthusiasm about reviving the club\u2019s legacy, saying they aim to \u201creturn the club to its old glory days.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Former AS Roma defender Nura Abdulahi has been appointed club president.<\/p>\n<p>The new ownership team is focused on securing promotion to the Nigeria Premier League (NPFL).<\/p>\n<p>This acquisition signals a promising new chapter for Rancher Bees FC, with strong support from Kaduna\u2019s passionate fanbase fueling hopes for a successful revival of the club\u2019s storied history.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Njoku Chijioke Nigerian football star and Super Eagles striker Sadiq Umar, alongside Hon. Bello El-Rufai, member of the House of Representatives for Kaduna North, have officially acquired Rancher Bees FC, a historic football club based in Kaduna. The team is set to compete in the Nigeria National League (NNL), in the upcoming season. Sadiq [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":72886,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72885","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\/72885","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=72885"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72885\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72887,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72885\/revisions\/72887"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}