{"id":80618,"date":"2025-12-20T05:28:04","date_gmt":"2025-12-20T05:28:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=80618"},"modified":"2025-12-20T05:28:04","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T05:28:04","slug":"african-youth-games-mayowa-abijuwon-win-gold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/12\/20\/african-youth-games-mayowa-abijuwon-win-gold\/","title":{"rendered":"African Youth Games: Mayowa, Abijuwon Win Gold"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Samuel Adeola<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Nigerian boxers Ayomide Mayowa and Faruk Abijuwon captured gold at the 4th African Youth Games in Luanda, Angola.<\/p>\n<p>Mayowa won the female 48kg final, defeating Algeria\u2019s Bensallah Bouthania, while Abijuwon claimed the male 50kg title with a victory over Congo\u2019s Bofenda Mabela.<\/p>\n<p>Both fighters impressed throughout the tournament. Mayowa beat Angola\u2019s Zola Lando in the quarter-finals and Tunisia\u2019s Queslati Tasnim in the semis, while Abijuwon overcame Tunisia\u2019s Salmane Kochbati and Ghana\u2019s Williams Laryea to reach the final.<\/p>\n<p>The Nigeria Boxing Federation praised their performances, with vice president Omonlei Imadu calling it a proud moment. Solomon Joshua also added a bronze medal to Nigeria\u2019s haul.<\/p>\n<p>The results highlight a promising future for Nigerian boxing on the continental stage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Samuel Adeola Nigerian boxers Ayomide Mayowa and Faruk Abijuwon captured gold at the 4th African Youth Games in Luanda, Angola. Mayowa won the female 48kg final, defeating Algeria\u2019s Bensallah Bouthania, while Abijuwon claimed the male 50kg title with a victory over Congo\u2019s Bofenda Mabela. Both fighters impressed throughout the tournament. Mayowa beat Angola\u2019s Zola [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":80619,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172,175],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-80618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-sports","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80618","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\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80618"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80618\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80620,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80618\/revisions\/80620"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}