{"id":383,"date":"2022-05-22T07:40:04","date_gmt":"2022-05-22T07:40:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/citywatch.ng\/sports-minister-to-host-victorious-flying-eagles-team-nigeria-scrabble-team-in-abuja-guardian-nigeria\/"},"modified":"2022-05-22T07:40:04","modified_gmt":"2022-05-22T07:40:04","slug":"sports-minister-to-host-victorious-flying-eagles-team-nigeria-scrabble-team-in-abuja-guardian-nigeria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citywatch.ng\/?p=383","title":{"rendered":"Sports Minister to host victorious Flying Eagles, Team Nigeria scrabble team in Abuja &#8211; Guardian Nigeria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Flying Eagles players and crew celebrate after winning the WAFU U-20 Championships in Niamey, Niger. They beat their Beninese counterparts 3-1 in the final to qualify for the CAF U-20 Africa Cup of Nations.<br \/>Sunday Dare, Nigeria\u2019s Minister of Youth and Sports Development, will host members of the victorious Flying Eagles squad to the WAFU U20 tournament and the all-conquering scrabble team to the West African championships in Abuja on Monday.<br \/>The Flying Eagles beat Benin 3-1 in Friday&#8217;s final of the WAFU tournament in Niamey, Republic of Niger, while the country\u2019s scrabble team swept the stakes at the West African championships in Accra, Ghana.<br \/>The Minister spoke to both teams immediately after their resounding successes in Niamey and Accra, commending them for doing the nation proud.<br \/>In Accra, Nigeria&#8217;s Eta Karo emerged the Championships&#8217; Most Valuable Player (MVP) as Team Nigeria swept the top-nine places, emerging the best country in the competition.<br \/>The Minister had visited the scrabble team on the eve of their departure to Ghana and urged them to be worthy ambassadors of the nation, a charge that has now been followed through.<br \/>Olobatoke Aka, the President of the Nigeria Scrabble Federation, thanked the Minister for his support and promised that the NSF will ensure Nigeria maintains its status as a global leader in the sport.<br \/>In his chat with the Flying Eagles after their victory, the Minister expressed his delight with the team&#8217;s performance and for restoring the nation&#8217;s pride at age grade football competitions.<br \/>He however charged them to stay committed to the greater goal, which is qualifying for the FIFA U20 World Cup in 2023.<br \/>The Flying Eagles beat the defending African Champions Ghana 2-0, drew 2-2 with Burkina Faso, edged Cote d\u2019Ivoire 2-1 after extra time in the semi-finals before the convincing 3-1 win over Benin in the final. <\/p>\n<div class=\"ad-align-none\">\n<div class=\"gcol\">\n<div class=\"widget widget_guardian_ad_widget\">\n<div class=\"ad-section\">\n<div id='gdn-dfp-3' class='dfp-ad ad-container'><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Follow Us<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/sport\/sports-minister-to-host-victorious-flying-eagles-team-nigeria-scrabble-team-in-abuja\/\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Flying Eagles players and crew celebrate after winning the WAFU U-20 Championships in Niamey, Niger. They beat their Beninese counterparts 3-1 in the final to qualify for the CAF U-20 Africa Cup of Nations.Sunday Dare, Nigeria\u2019s Minister of Youth and Sports Development, will host members of the victorious Flying Eagles squad to the WAFU U20 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":384,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v21.5 (Yoast SEO v25.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Sports Minister to host victorious Flying Eagles, Team Nigeria scrabble team in Abuja - Guardian Nigeria - City Watch<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/citywatch.ng\/?p=383\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Sports Minister to host victorious Flying Eagles, Team Nigeria scrabble team in Abuja - Guardian Nigeria City Watch\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Sports Minister to host victorious Flying Eagles, Team Nigeria scrabble team in Abuja - Guardian Nigeria City Watch %\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/citywatch.ng\/?p=383\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"City Watch\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/web.facebook.com\/profile.php?id=100083282987806\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2022-05-22T07:40:04+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/citywatch.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/wp-header-logo-6.png\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"960\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"540\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/png\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Editor\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Editor\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/citywatch.ng\/?p=383#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/citywatch.ng\/?p=383\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Editor\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/citywatch.ng\/#\/schema\/person\/6f3e02bc6483df72f5abc6e9624d0cc8\"},\"headline\":\"Sports Minister to host victorious Flying Eagles, Team Nigeria scrabble team in Abuja &#8211; 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