{"id":182666,"date":"2024-10-17T00:26:11","date_gmt":"2024-10-16T22:26:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/libya\/nigeria-libya-afcon-qualifiers-nigerias-super-eagles-stay-top-despite-libya-controversy\/"},"modified":"2024-10-17T00:26:11","modified_gmt":"2024-10-16T22:26:11","slug":"nigeria-libya-afcon-qualifiers-nigerias-super-eagles-stay-top-despite-libya-controversy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/libya\/nigeria-libya-afcon-qualifiers-nigerias-super-eagles-stay-top-despite-libya-controversy\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria\/Libya: Afcon Qualifiers &#8211; Nigeria&#8217;s Super Eagles Stay Top Despite Libya Controversy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"16\"><em>Nigeria&#8217;s Super Eagles remain in pole position in Group D with seven points from three games<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\">Despite not playing their matchday 4 <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cafonline.com\/caf-africa-cup-of-nations\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Africa Cup of Nations<\/a><\/strong> qualifying match against Libya&#8217;s Mediterranean Knights, the Super Eagles of Nigeria remain top in Group D with seven points from three games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\">Also in the group, Rwanda secured a crucial 2-1 victory over Benin in their match, played at the Stade Amahoro on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"12\">The home side dominated the match, controlling possession and creating numerous&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202410160066.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 North Africa <a title=\"Libya\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/north-africa\/libya\/\">Libya<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nigeria&#8217;s Super Eagles remain in pole position in Group D with seven points from three games Despite not playing their matchday 4 Africa Cup of Nations qualifying match against Libya&#8217;s Mediterranean Knights, the Super Eagles of Nigeria remain top in Group D with seven points from three games. Also in the group, Rwanda secured a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":182667,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[891],"tags":[9488,258,256,9868,5232,4711,892,257,5761,18235,7318,254,9311,9095,7319],"class_list":["post-182666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-libya","tag-afcon","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-controversy","tag-eagles","tag-libya","tag-libya-news","tag-news","tag-nigerias","tag-nigerialibya","tag-qualifiers","tag-south-africa-today","tag-stay","tag-super","tag-top"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182666\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/182667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}