{"id":74770,"date":"2025-09-02T10:28:17","date_gmt":"2025-09-02T10:28:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=74770"},"modified":"2025-09-02T10:28:17","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T10:28:17","slug":"ogunmodede-anas-arrive-in-abuja-ahead-of-npfl-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/09\/02\/ogunmodede-anas-arrive-in-abuja-ahead-of-npfl-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"Ogunmodede, Anas Arrive in Abuja Ahead of NPFL Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Onyeanya Ebere Immaculata<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Remo Stars coach, Daniel Ogunmodede, and Nasarawa United striker, Yusuf Anas, have arrived at Blue Springs Hotel, Abuja, for the 2025 Nigeria Premier Football League (NPFL), Awards scheduled for Tuesday, September 2.<\/p>\n<p>The ceremony will officially crown Anas as the league\u2019s top scorer for the 2024\/25 season after netting 17 goals, while Ogunmodede is being celebrated for leading Remo Stars to their historic first NPFL title.<\/p>\n<p>The top scorer award comes with a cash prize of \u20a62 million.<\/p>\n<p>NPFL Chairman, Otunba Gbenga Elegbeleye, said the awards were instituted to reward outstanding performances and encourage excellence in Nigerian football.<\/p>\n<p>He disclosed that future editions will feature expanded categories such as recognition for fan clubs, with added entertainment elements to enrich the event.<\/p>\n<p>The ceremony, which kicks off at 10 a.m., will host former league stars, football administrators, and other dignitaries from across the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Onyeanya Ebere Immaculata &nbsp; Remo Stars coach, Daniel Ogunmodede, and Nasarawa United striker, Yusuf Anas, have arrived at Blue Springs Hotel, Abuja, for the 2025 Nigeria Premier Football League (NPFL), Awards scheduled for Tuesday, September 2. The ceremony will officially crown Anas as the league\u2019s top scorer for the 2024\/25 season after netting 17 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":74771,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172,175],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-sports"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74770","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=74770"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74770\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74772,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74770\/revisions\/74772"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}