{"id":76491,"date":"2025-10-11T19:48:31","date_gmt":"2025-10-11T19:48:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=76491"},"modified":"2025-10-11T19:48:31","modified_gmt":"2025-10-11T19:48:31","slug":"crack-on-window-forces-super-eagles-plane-to-land-in-angola","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/10\/11\/crack-on-window-forces-super-eagles-plane-to-land-in-angola\/","title":{"rendered":"Crack on Window Forces Super Eagles\u2019 Plane to Land in Angola"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Samuel Adeola<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Tension gripped passengers on Saturday as a ValueJet aircraft conveying Nigeria\u2019s Super Eagles from South Africa made an emergency landing in Angola after a crack was discovered on one of the plane\u2019s windows.<\/p>\n<p>A top Nigeria Football Federation (NFF), official confirmed the incident, describing it as \u201ca close call that could have been worse.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The team was en route to Uyo, Akwa Ibom, for their final World Cup qualifier when the pilot detected the fault and diverted for safety.<\/p>\n<p>The Group C race for the 2026 FIFA World Cup remains tight, with Benin Republic leading on 17 points, followed by South Africa with 15 and Nigeria on 14.<\/p>\n<p>Nigeria revived their hopes on Friday with a 2-1 win over Lesotho in Polokwane, thanks to goals from captain William Troost-Ekong and debutant Akor Adams.<\/p>\n<p>South Africa were held 0-0 by Zimbabwe in Durban, while Benin secured a crucial 1-0 victory over Rwanda.<\/p>\n<p>Tuesday\u2019s final fixtures will determine who claims the group\u2019s sole World Cup ticket.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Samuel Adeola &nbsp; Tension gripped passengers on Saturday as a ValueJet aircraft conveying Nigeria\u2019s Super Eagles from South Africa made an emergency landing in Angola after a crack was discovered on one of the plane\u2019s windows. A top Nigeria Football Federation (NFF), official confirmed the incident, describing it as \u201ca close call that could [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":76492,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172,175],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76491","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\/76491","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=76491"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76491\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76493,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76491\/revisions\/76493"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}