{"id":236906,"date":"2026-06-20T17:39:20","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T15:39:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-world-cup-a-viewing-centre-not-a-stadium-actor-chinedu-ikedieze-reacts-to-30-fee\/"},"modified":"2026-06-20T17:39:20","modified_gmt":"2026-06-20T15:39:20","slug":"nigeria-world-cup-a-viewing-centre-not-a-stadium-actor-chinedu-ikedieze-reacts-to-30-fee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-world-cup-a-viewing-centre-not-a-stadium-actor-chinedu-ikedieze-reacts-to-30-fee\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: World Cup &#8211; &#8216;A Viewing Centre, Not a Stadium&#8217; &#8211; Actor Chinedu Ikedieze Reacts to $30 Fee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">Nollywood actor Chinedu Ikedieze has sparked reactions online after questioning the high cost of watching a football match at a fan festival in the United States of America.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"13\">According to the actor, the experience reminded him of business opportunities in Lagos.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">In the video, which surfaced online recently, Ikedieze was seen attending a football fan festival where supporters could watch a live match on giant screens outside the stadium.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">&#8220;We have come to watch match oh. Not even in the stadium, this&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202606190400.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>Nollywood actor Chinedu Ikedieze has sparked reactions online after questioning the high cost of watching a football match at a fan festival in the United States of America. According to the actor, the experience reminded him of business opportunities in Lagos. In the video, which surfaced online recently, Ikedieze was seen attending a football fan [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":236907,"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":[249],"tags":[20687,258,256,9881,54661,6674,9136,54662,257,4687,393,9690,254,9328,47654,5093],"class_list":["post-236906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-actor","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-centre","tag-chinedu","tag-cup","tag-fee","tag-ikedieze","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-reacts","tag-south-africa-today","tag-stadium","tag-viewing","tag-world"],"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\/236906","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=236906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236906\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/236907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}