{"id":78964,"date":"2025-11-19T08:03:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T08:03:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=78964"},"modified":"2025-11-19T08:03:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T08:03:10","slug":"team-nigeria-eyes-more-medals-at-islamic-solidarity-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/11\/19\/team-nigeria-eyes-more-medals-at-islamic-solidarity-games\/","title":{"rendered":"Team Nigeria Eyes More Medals at Islamic Solidarity Games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Omoniyi David<\/p>\n<p>Team Nigeria is set to increase its medal haul today at the Sixth Islamic Solidarity Games in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, with athletes competing in three finals.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, Pamela Amaechi won silver in the women\u2019s discus with a throw of 56.99m, narrowly missing gold.<\/p>\n<p>Patience Okon-George qualified for the women\u2019s 400m final with a time of 52.92s, while Kure Samuel Adams prepares for the men\u2019s javelin final.<\/p>\n<p>Nigeria also hopes for strong finishes in the 4x100m relays.<\/p>\n<p>So far, the country has claimed 17 medals, six gold, seven silver, and four bronze.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Omoniyi David Team Nigeria is set to increase its medal haul today at the Sixth Islamic Solidarity Games in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, with athletes competing in three finals. Yesterday, Pamela Amaechi won silver in the women\u2019s discus with a throw of 56.99m, narrowly missing gold. Patience Okon-George qualified for the women\u2019s 400m final with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":78965,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[175],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78964","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\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78964"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78964\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78966,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78964\/revisions\/78966"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}