{"id":133530,"date":"2019-07-06T23:58:13","date_gmt":"2019-07-06T22:58:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=133530"},"modified":"2019-07-07T10:45:38","modified_gmt":"2019-07-07T09:45:38","slug":"nigeria-vs-cameroon-atiku-reacts-as-super-eagles-qualify-for-afcon-quarter-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=133530","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria vs Cameroon: Atiku reacts as Super Eagles qualify for AFCON quarter-final"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/arewa.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Nigeria-vs-Guinea-5-things-we-learnt-as-Super-Eagles-qualify-for-Round-of-16.jpg\"><\/p>\n<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">Former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar, has hailed Nigeria\u2019s Super Eagles for qualifying for the quarter-final stage of the Africa Cup of Nations, AFCON 2019.<\/p>\n<p>They defeated Cameroon 3-2 on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Odion Ighalo opened scoring in the 19th minute, after his shot was deflected in by Banana.<\/p>\n<p>The Indomitable Lions fought back to lead 2-1 before the break, thanks to goals from Stephane Bahoken and Clinton N\u2019Jie.<\/p>\n<p>However, Gernot Rohr\u2019s men turned it around with two quick fire goals from Ighalo and Alex Iwobi.<\/p>\n<p>Reacting, Atiku said he was proud of the team.<\/p>\n<p>He tweeted: \u201cA delightful evening of quality and resilient football.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCongratulations @NGSuperEagles on your quarterfinal qualification. We are proud of you. #TotalAFCON2019 #NGACMR\u201d<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar, has hailed Nigeria\u2019s Super Eagles for qualifying for the quarter-final stage of the Africa Cup of Nations, AFCON 2019. They defeated Cameroon 3-2 on Saturday. Odion Ighalo opened scoring in the 19th minute, after his shot was deflected in by Banana. The Indomitable Lions fought back to lead 2-1 before [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":130438,"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":[],"class_list":["post-133530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133530","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=133530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133530\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/130438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=133530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=133530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=133530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}