{"id":109585,"date":"2019-04-22T13:37:25","date_gmt":"2019-04-22T12:37:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=109585"},"modified":"2019-04-22T13:37:50","modified_gmt":"2019-04-22T12:37:50","slug":"john-mikel-obi-nff-middlesbrough-send-message-to-midfielder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=109585","title":{"rendered":"John Mikel Obi: NFF, Middlesbrough send message to midfielder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/arewa.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/John-Mikel-Obi-NFF-Middlesbrough-send-message-to-midfielder.jpg\"><\/p>\n<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">The Nigerian Football Federation, NFF, has sent birthday wishes to Super Eagles captain, John Mikel Obi as he turned 32 on Monday (today).<\/p>\n<p>Mikel, a former Chelsea star, was born on the 22nd of April 1987 in Plateau State, Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p>The Midlesbrough star, who made his debut for the Super Eagles in 2005, has scored six goals in 85 appearances for Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHappy birthday to @NGSuperEagles captain, @mikel_john_obi. We wish you the best today and always. Enjoy your day!\u201d The NFF tweeted.<\/p>\n<p>On their part, Middlesbrough also celebrated Mikel Obi in a tweet on their official Twitter page.<\/p>\n<p>Middlesbrough wrote: \u201cHappy birthday to @mikel_john_obi! #UTB.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mikel will hope to lead Middlesbrough to victory when they tackle Nottingham Forest in the Championship fixture later today.\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Nigerian Football Federation, NFF, has sent birthday wishes to Super Eagles captain, John Mikel Obi as he turned 32 on Monday (today). Mikel, a former Chelsea star, was born on the 22nd of April 1987 in Plateau State, Nigeria. The Midlesbrough star, who made his debut for the Super Eagles in 2005, has scored [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":109586,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[7013],"class_list":["post-109585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-mikel-obi"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=109585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109585\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/109586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=109585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=109585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=109585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}