{"id":437873,"date":"2011-06-07T13:01:36","date_gmt":"2011-06-07T13:01:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/06\/07\/nigeria-2012-african-nations-cup-super-eagles-will-qualify\/"},"modified":"2011-06-07T13:01:36","modified_gmt":"2011-06-07T13:01:36","slug":"nigeria-2012-african-nations-cup-super-eagles-will-qualify","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/06\/07\/nigeria-2012-african-nations-cup-super-eagles-will-qualify\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: 2012 African Nations Cup &#8211; Super Eagles Will Qualify"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"24.1113193403\">\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.champion.com.ng\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/allafrica.com\/img\/static\/publishers\/minibanners\/dailychampion180.jpg\" alt=\"Daily Champion (Lagos)\" title=\"Visit Daily Champion (Lagos)\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>7 June 2011<\/p>\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<p>Chairman of the Nigeria Football Association (NFA), Alhaji Aminu Maigari, has expressed belief that Super Eagles will qualify for the 2012 African Nations Cup.<\/p>\n<p>He said that in spite of the team&#8217;s 2-2 draw with hosts Ethiopia last Sunday in Addis Ababa, he was optimistic of Nigeria&#8217;s qualification.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am happy with the match result. Not only that, I am optimistic that Nigeria will qualify for the 2012 Nations Cup,&#8221; he said after the Group B Matchday Four fixture of the qualifiers.<\/p>\n<p>Many Nigerians had trooped to the Addis Ababa National Stadium to watch the match and cheer the Super Eagles.<\/p>\n<p>Former Nigerian Defence Minister, Prince Adetokunbo Kayode, Nigeria&#8217;s Permanent Representative to the AU Commission, Amb. Eineje Onobu, and several diplomats were among the Nigerians who watched the match.<\/p>\n<p>Also thousands of Ethiopian fans had trooped to the Addis Ababa National Stadium as early as 7 a.m to purchase tickets for the game.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<fieldset>\n<legend align=\"center\"><strong>More News on allAfrica.com<\/strong><\/legend>\n<\/fieldset>\n<p>AllAfrica &#8211; All the Time<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>Excerpt from:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/201106071049.html\" title=\"Nigeria: 2012 African Nations Cup - Super Eagles Will Qualify\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Nigeria: 2012 African Nations Cup &#8211; Super Eagles Will Qualify<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> 7 June 2011 Chairman of the Nigeria Football Association (NFA), Alhaji Aminu Maigari, has expressed belief that Super Eagles will qualify for the 2012 African Nations Cup. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":407855,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-437873","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-local-news"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Nigeria: 2012 African Nations Cup - Super Eagles Will Qualify - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/06\/07\/nigeria-2012-african-nations-cup-super-eagles-will-qualify\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Nigeria: 2012 African Nations Cup - Super Eagles Will Qualify - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"7 June 2011 Chairman of the Nigeria Football Association (NFA), Alhaji Aminu Maigari, has expressed belief that Super Eagles will qualify for the 2012 African Nations Cup.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@ghanamma\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@ghanamma\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ghanamma.com\\\/2011\\\/06\\\/07\\\/nigeria-2012-african-nations-cup-super-eagles-will-qualify\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ghanamma.com\\\/2011\\\/06\\\/07\\\/nigeria-2012-african-nations-cup-super-eagles-will-qualify\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"\",\"@id\":\"\"},\"headline\":\"Nigeria: 2012 African Nations Cup &#8211; 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