{"id":3196,"date":"2014-11-21T07:19:23","date_gmt":"2014-11-21T07:19:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=3196"},"modified":"2014-11-21T07:19:23","modified_gmt":"2014-11-21T07:19:23","slug":"2015-afcon-wyclef-jean-shocked-by-nigerias-exit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=3196","title":{"rendered":"2015 AFCON: Wyclef Jean shocked by Nigeria\u2019s exit"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_3197\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3197\" style=\"width: 260px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Wyclef-Jean-360x414.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3197\" alt=\"Wyclef Jean\" src=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Wyclef-Jean-360x414-260x300.jpg\" width=\"260\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Wyclef-Jean-360x414-260x300.jpg 260w, http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Wyclef-Jean-360x414.jpg 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 260px) 100vw, 260px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3197\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wyclef Jean<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The shock over Nigeria\u2019s non-qualification for the 2015 Africa Nations Cup is of international dimension as international music icon, Wyclef Jean, has expressed disbelief at the Super Eagles failure to qualify for the 2015 Africa Cup of Nations billed for Equatorial Guinea. The Haiti-born singer expressed his feelings via his <em>Twitter<\/em> handle just as many other Nigerians have continued to express.<\/p>\n<p>The Eagles lost the ticket to Congo after struggling to a 2-2 draw against South Africa\u2019s Bafana Bafana in Uyo on Wednesday. Wyclef who tweeted after the match said he was stunned that the once revered African champions could not sail through despite being a good zone.<\/p>\n<p>Wyclef who sang the big hit \u2018Dialo Dialo\u2019 wrote, \u201cShocker I am stunned unbelievable the #NGA #SuperEagles are out of #CFA finals in the hand of #RSA #AfricaUnited #Clefication #DivineSorrow.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Haitian who also did collaboration with late Witney Houston \u2018If Tomorrow were Judgment Day\u2019 is surely a big fan of African football as he had kept pace with the qualifiers all along. When Equatorial Guinea became the new hosts of the event, he posted, \u201cEquatorial Guinea confirmed as Morocco\u2019s replacement to host @BBCFarayi @NacimCity #AFCON2015 #AfricaUnited.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And on Wednesday before the game in Akwa Ibom State kicked off, the \u2018Gone Till November\u2019 crooner wrote, \u201cLast day for #CAF qualifications, will the defending champions #NGA survive? #AfricaUnited #Clefication #DivineSorrow.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The award-winning musician is not the only star from that zone that loves football. Sprinter Usain Bolt is a fan of Manchester United and believes he could play for the team some day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The shock over Nigeria\u2019s non-qualification for the 2015 Africa Nations Cup is of international dimension as international music icon, Wyclef Jean, has expressed disbelief at the Super Eagles failure to qualify for the 2015 Africa Cup of Nations billed for Equatorial Guinea. The Haiti-born singer expressed his feelings via his Twitter handle just as many [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3197,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Wyclef-Jean-360x414.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4oswh-Py","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3196"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3196\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3198,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3196\/revisions\/3198"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}