{"id":221291,"date":"2026-01-21T11:14:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T09:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/nigeria-para-badminton-nigerias-eniola-bolaji-wins-gold-in-egypt\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T11:14:00","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T09:14:00","slug":"nigeria-para-badminton-nigerias-eniola-bolaji-wins-gold-in-egypt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/nigeria-para-badminton-nigerias-eniola-bolaji-wins-gold-in-egypt\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: Para Badminton &#8211; Nigeria&#8217;s Eniola Bolaji Wins Gold in Egypt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">An elated President of the Badminton Federation of Nigeria, Francis Orbih, praised the consistency of Bolaji for continuing to put the country on the global map<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">Africa&#8217;s number one para badminton player, Eniola Bolaji, emerged champion of the 2026 Egypt International Championship on Sunday, defeating all opponents before her<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the Paralympic bronze medallist defeated world No. 7 Halime Yildiz of Turkey 2-0 (21-10, 21-4) at the New Capital Indoor Hall in&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202601190095.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 North Africa <a title=\"Egypt\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/north-africa\/egypt\/\">Egypt<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An elated President of the Badminton Federation of Nigeria, Francis Orbih, praised the consistency of Bolaji for continuing to put the country on the global map Africa&#8217;s number one para badminton player, Eniola Bolaji, emerged champion of the 2026 Egypt International Championship on Sunday, defeating all opponents before her The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":221292,"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":[338],"tags":[258,256,28597,45456,4697,415,50515,4644,257,4687,5761,28668,254,6552],"class_list":["post-221291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-egypt","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-badminton","tag-bolaji","tag-egypt","tag-egypt-news","tag-eniola","tag-gold","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigerias","tag-para","tag-south-africa-today","tag-wins"],"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\/221291","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=221291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221291\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/221292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}