{"id":16122,"date":"2024-02-08T16:02:37","date_gmt":"2024-02-08T16:02:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/afcon-2023-awa-lokan-tinubu-urges-super-eagles-on-to-trophy\/"},"modified":"2024-02-08T16:02:37","modified_gmt":"2024-02-08T16:02:37","slug":"afcon-2023-awa-lokan-tinubu-urges-super-eagles-on-to-trophy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/afcon-2023-awa-lokan-tinubu-urges-super-eagles-on-to-trophy\/","title":{"rendered":"AFCON 2023: Awa Lokan \u2013 Tinubu urges Super Eagles on to trophy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>President Bola Tinubu on Thursday expressed hope that the Super Eagles of Nigeria will lift the 2023 All African Cup of Nations, AFCON, in Ivory Coast.<\/p>\n<p>Tinubu expressed hope that it\u2019s Nigeria\u2019s turn to lift the trophy, saying, \u201cAwa Lokan.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The president spoke at an event in Abuja while congratulating Nigerians over the Super Eagles victory against the Bafana Bafana of South Africa.<\/p>\n<p>According to Tinubu: \u201cCongratulations once again on the attainment of victory just last night. It was a moment of joy for every one of us united as a nation and very hopeful that it\u2019s our turn for the trophy, Awa Lokan.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday evening, the Super Eagles of Nigeria had defeated their South African counterpart 4-2 to qualify for the AFCON finals.<\/p>\n<p>The match had ended 1-1 at the end of 120 minutes after which the game went into a penalty shoot-out.<\/p>\n<p>With this victory, the Super Eagles will be facing their Ivorian counterpart in the AFCON finals on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>AFCON 2023: Awa Lokan \u2013 Tinubu urges Super Eagles on to trophy<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Bola Tinubu on Thursday expressed hope that the Super Eagles of Nigeria will lift the 2023 All African Cup&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16123,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5103,10343,15,160,869],"tags":[110,10344,873,10345,180,201,870],"class_list":["post-16122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-afcon","category-awa-lokan","category-news","category-sport","category-super-eagles","tag-afcon","tag-awa","tag-eagles","tag-lokan","tag-news","tag-sport","tag-super"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16122\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}