{"id":184604,"date":"2024-11-14T19:33:10","date_gmt":"2024-11-14T17:33:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/nigeria-uganda-close-in-on-afcon-2025-tickets-ghana-face-elimination\/"},"modified":"2024-11-14T19:33:10","modified_gmt":"2024-11-14T17:33:10","slug":"nigeria-uganda-close-in-on-afcon-2025-tickets-ghana-face-elimination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/nigeria-uganda-close-in-on-afcon-2025-tickets-ghana-face-elimination\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria, Uganda Close in On Afcon 2025 Tickets, Ghana Face Elimination"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\">Nigeria&#8217;s Super Eagles and their Ugandan counterparts are on the brink of securing their places in the finals as matchday-5 of the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) qualifiers takes centre stage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"38\">With both sides needing just a point to qualify for the tournament set to be hosted by Morocco, Nigeria and Uganda will lock horns with Benin in Abidjan on Thursday and South Africa in Kampala respectively on Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"39\">Nigeria&#8217;s West African arch rivals, Ghana, on the other hand, could be eliminated by the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202411140362.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Ghana\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/ghana\/\">Ghana<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nigeria&#8217;s Super Eagles and their Ugandan counterparts are on the brink of securing their places in the finals as matchday-5 of the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) qualifiers takes centre stage. With both sides needing just a point to qualify for the tournament set to be hosted by Morocco, Nigeria and Uganda will lock [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":184605,"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":[4507],"tags":[9488,258,256,6748,20550,7127,4508,4509,257,4687,254,13377,4707],"class_list":["post-184604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-afcon","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-close","tag-elimination","tag-face","tag-ghana","tag-ghana-news","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-south-africa-today","tag-tickets","tag-uganda"],"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\/184604","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\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184604\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/184605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}