{"id":8140,"date":"2023-12-21T20:04:44","date_gmt":"2023-12-21T20:04:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/npfl-approves-rangers-return-to-nnamdi-azikiwe-stadium\/"},"modified":"2023-12-21T20:04:44","modified_gmt":"2023-12-21T20:04:44","slug":"npfl-approves-rangers-return-to-nnamdi-azikiwe-stadium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/npfl-approves-rangers-return-to-nnamdi-azikiwe-stadium\/","title":{"rendered":"NPFL approves Rangers\u2019 return to Nnamdi Azikiwe Stadium"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The Nigeria Premier Football League board has granted Rangers approval to return to the Nnamdi Azikwe International Stadium, Enugu.<\/p>\n<p>The Flying Antelopes have adopted the Akwa City Stadium as their home ground since the Nnamdi Azikwe Stadium was declared unfit to host NPFL games.<\/p>\n<p>The club subsequently embarked on extensive rehabilitation of the ground covering re-grassing of the turf, modernisation of the dressing rooms and the spectator stands.<\/p>\n<p>The NPFL took the decision after a recent inspection of the facility on the invitation of Rangers.<\/p>\n<p>A correspondence from the NPFL to Rangers and signed by Davidson Owumi the Chief Operating Officer, conveyed the approval which opened the stadium for matches from matchday 16.<\/p>\n<p>The coal city outfit will host traditional rivals Shooting Stars at the ground next week Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>NPFL approves Rangers\u2019 return to Nnamdi Azikiwe Stadium<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Nigeria Premier Football League board has granted Rangers approval to return to the Nnamdi Azikwe International Stadium, Enugu. The&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8141,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,7384,683,160],"tags":[2405,180,1595,304,201,2041],"class_list":["post-8140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-nnamdi-azikiwe-stadium","category-npfl","category-sport","tag-azikiwe","tag-news","tag-nnamdi","tag-npfl","tag-sport","tag-stadium"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8140","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=8140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8140\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}