{"id":560,"date":"2014-08-21T16:27:40","date_gmt":"2014-08-21T16:27:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=560"},"modified":"2014-08-21T16:27:40","modified_gmt":"2014-08-21T16:27:40","slug":"jonathan-congratulates-falconets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=560","title":{"rendered":"Jonathan congratulates Falconets"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"nrelate_flyout_placeholder\">\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/jonathan1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-561\" alt=\"jonathan\" src=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/jonathan1.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>President Goodluck Jonathan on Thursday congratulated Nigeria\u2019s Under-20 female football team, the Falconets on their qualification for the final match of the ongoing FIFA tournament in Canada.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Dr. Reuben Abati, the President applauded the Falconets\u2019 scintillating display which earned them a 6-2 victory in Wednesday\u2019s semi-final encounter with North Korea as well as their very commendable performance in earlier matches.<\/p>\n<p>As the Falconets prepare for the final match of the tournament against Germany on Sunday, Jonathan urged them to put in their best effort to win the under-20 Female World Cup for Nigeria and Africa for the first time in the history of the competition.<\/p>\n<p>He assured the girls and their handlers of the full support of the Federal Government and the prayers of all Nigerians for their triumph on Sunday.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Goodluck Jonathan on Thursday congratulated Nigeria\u2019s Under-20 female football team, the Falconets on their qualification for the final match of the ongoing FIFA tournament in Canada. In a statement by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Dr. Reuben Abati, the President applauded the Falconets\u2019 scintillating display which earned them a 6-2 victory in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":561,"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-560","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\/08\/jonathan1.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4oswh-92","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560","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=560"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":562,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560\/revisions\/562"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}