{"id":190795,"date":"2025-02-07T14:32:33","date_gmt":"2025-02-07T12:32:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-katsina-govt-approves-skills-training-for-states-football-academy-players\/"},"modified":"2025-02-07T14:32:33","modified_gmt":"2025-02-07T12:32:33","slug":"nigeria-katsina-govt-approves-skills-training-for-states-football-academy-players","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-katsina-govt-approves-skills-training-for-states-football-academy-players\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: Katsina Govt Approves Skills Training for State&#8217;s Football Academy Players"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">The Executive Council has also approved a monthly fitness initiative tagged &#8220;Walk for Life,&#8221; involving government officials from both executive and legislative arms<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/katsinastate.gov.ng\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Katsina State Government<\/a><\/strong> has incorporated a development programme for young footballers at the Katsina Football Academy, combining athletic training with practical skills acquisition to secure the future beyond sports.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"41\">The State Commissioner for Youth and Sports, Aliyu Lawal Zakari Shargalle, announced this after the State Executive&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202502070238.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Nigeria\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/nigeria\/\">Nigeria<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Executive Council has also approved a monthly fitness initiative tagged &#8220;Walk for Life,&#8221; involving government officials from both executive and legislative arms Katsina State Government has incorporated a development programme for young footballers at the Katsina Football Academy, combining athletic training with practical skills acquisition to secure the future beyond sports. The State Commissioner [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":190796,"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":[249],"tags":[8197,258,256,8326,3299,4357,8042,257,4687,393,9444,6781,254,6484,4287],"class_list":["post-190795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-academy","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-approves","tag-football","tag-govt","tag-katsina","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-players","tag-skills","tag-south-africa-today","tag-states","tag-training"],"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\/190795","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=190795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190795\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/190796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}