{"id":18207,"date":"2013-02-03T23:35:00","date_gmt":"2013-02-03T23:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2013\/02\/nigeria-was-excellent-says-sports-minister\/"},"modified":"2013-02-03T23:35:00","modified_gmt":"2013-02-03T23:35:00","slug":"nigeria-was-excellent-says-sports-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/02\/03\/nigeria-was-excellent-says-sports-minister\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria Was Excellent, Says Sports Minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div class=\"img\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/serving.thisdaylive.com\/0bef99d6-acf5-4e2c-9779-8fa02ba3fcd4\/assets\/Bolaji-Abdullahi-20.jpg?maxwidth=400&amp;maxheight=540\" id=\"page_content_Content9_oModuleContent_2_img_Banner\" alt=\"Bolaji-Abdullahi-20.jpg - Bolaji-Abdullahi-20.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<div id=\"page_content_Content9_oModuleContent_2_div_Body\" class=\"body\">\n<p class=\"c4\"><span class=\"c3\">Sports Minister Bolaji Abdullahi<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"c4\">The Minister of Sports and Chairman of the National Sports Commission (NSC),\u00a0 Mallam Bolaji Abdullahi, has praised Nigeria\u2019s Super Eagles for displaying unusual grit, determination and brilliance in the defeat of the Elephants of Cote d\u2019Ivoire in the quarter finals of the ongoing Cup of Nations tournament in South Africa.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c4\">Abdullahi said the Super Eagles rose to the occasion and displayed the true Nigerian spirit of never giving up, adding that with the victory, the team has shown that it is still a force to be reckoned with in African football.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c4\">He urged the team to maintain the same standard and focus on their next match against the Eagles of Mali.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c4\">\u201cI have no doubt that with the level of play I saw today, they have the capacity to get to the final of the tournament and even win the cup.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c4\">&#8220;I urge the team to remain focused and disciplined. I congratulate the players and technical team for the excellent performance,\u201d Abdullahi said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Sports Minister Bolaji Abdullahi The Minister of Sports and Chairman of the National Sports Commission (NSC),\u00a0 Mallam Bolaji Abdullahi, has praised Nigeria\u2019s Super Eagles for displaying unusual grit, determination and brilliance in the defeat of the Elephants of Cote d\u2019Ivoire in the quarter finals of the ongoing Cup of Nations tournament in South Africa. &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18207\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}