{"id":78690,"date":"2025-11-14T06:50:27","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T06:50:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=78690"},"modified":"2025-11-14T06:50:27","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T06:50:27","slug":"tinubu-celebrates-super-eagles-4-1-win-over-gabon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/11\/14\/tinubu-celebrates-super-eagles-4-1-win-over-gabon\/","title":{"rendered":"Tinubu Celebrates Super Eagles\u2019 4-1 Win Over Gabon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Huldah Shado<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has congratulated the Super Eagles on their emphatic 4-1 victory over Gabon in the FIFA World Cup qualifying play-offs in Morocco, a win that sends Nigeria into the final round of qualifiers for the 2026 tournament.<\/p>\n<p>Reacting on his official X handle on Thursday, Tinubu praised the team\u2019s resilience, urging them to maintain their momentum.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is the true Nigerian spirit of resilience against all odds. Do not stop until you secure qualification. Super Eagles, keep soaring\u2026 The nation stands with you,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Nigeria\u2019s goals came through Akor Adams, Chidera Ejuke and a brace from Victor Osimhen, while Gabon netted a late consolation.<\/p>\n<p>With the victory, the Super Eagles advance to the final phase of the African qualifiers as they continue their push for a place at the 2026 FIFA World Cup.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Huldah Shado President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has congratulated the Super Eagles on their emphatic 4-1 victory over Gabon in the FIFA World Cup qualifying play-offs in Morocco, a win that sends Nigeria into the final round of qualifiers for the 2026 tournament. Reacting on his official X handle on Thursday, Tinubu praised the team\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":78691,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172,175],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78690","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\/78690","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=78690"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78690\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78692,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78690\/revisions\/78692"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}