{"id":208611,"date":"2025-09-30T19:29:51","date_gmt":"2025-09-30T17:29:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/nigeria-ghana-wafu-b-u17-eaglets-eye-afcon-spot-in-showdown-with-ghana\/"},"modified":"2025-09-30T19:29:51","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T17:29:51","slug":"nigeria-ghana-wafu-b-u17-eaglets-eye-afcon-spot-in-showdown-with-ghana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/nigeria-ghana-wafu-b-u17-eaglets-eye-afcon-spot-in-showdown-with-ghana\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria\/Ghana: Wafu-B U17 &#8211; Eaglets Eye Afcon Spot in Showdown With Ghana"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"53\">Nigeria&#8217;s Golden Eaglets will battle eternal rivals Ghana&#8217;s Black Starlets on Tuesday for a place in the final of the WAFU-B U17 Championship &#8212; and a ticket to the 2026 Africa U17 Cup of Nations. The semi-final is scheduled for 8:00 p.m. Nigeria time at the Stade Charles Konan Banny in C\u00f4te d&#8217;Ivoire.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"70\">The five-time FIFA U17 world champions have looked solid in the competition, scoring four goals and conceding only once to top Group B with four points. In contrast, Ghana endured a shaky path to&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202509300486.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 Golden Eaglets will battle eternal rivals Ghana&#8217;s Black Starlets on Tuesday for a place in the final of the WAFU-B U17 Championship &#8212; and a ticket to the 2026 Africa U17 Cup of Nations. The semi-final is scheduled for 8:00 p.m. Nigeria time at the Stade Charles Konan Banny in C\u00f4te d&#8217;Ivoire. The five-time [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":208612,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4507],"tags":[9488,258,256,23749,9381,4508,4509,257,14386,11502,254,7506,9489,42614],"class_list":["post-208611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-afcon","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-eaglets","tag-eye","tag-ghana","tag-ghana-news","tag-news","tag-nigeriaghana","tag-showdown","tag-south-africa-today","tag-spot","tag-u17","tag-wafub"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.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\/208611","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=208611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208611\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/208612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}