{"id":2158,"date":"2023-07-11T09:46:50","date_gmt":"2023-07-11T08:46:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wepbi.com\/en\/?p=2158"},"modified":"2023-07-11T09:46:57","modified_gmt":"2023-07-11T08:46:57","slug":"nigeria-wins-u-21-womens-volleyball-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wepbi.com\/en\/nigeria-wins-u-21-womens-volleyball-championship\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria wins U-21 Women\u2019s Volleyball Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div id=\"section-g02774f\" class=\"wp-block-gutentor-e6 section-g02774f gutentor-element gutentor-element-image\"><div class=\"gutentor-element-image-box\"><div class=\"gutentor-image-thumb\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"normal-image\" src=\"https:\/\/wepbi.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/nigeria-girls.jpg\"\/><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Nigeria defeated Ghana to lift the women&#8217;s trophy at the ongoing 2023 African U-21 Nations Volleyball Championship Zone 3 in Niamey, Niger Republic on Sunday. Team Nigeria went through the entire tournament without dropping a single set to be crowned champions while beating Ghana twice in the mix.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nigeria defeated Ghana 3:0 (25-10 25-15 25-10) in the finals on Sunday night to clinch the title.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The girls had earlier eased past local rivals, Ghana in their first match of the tournament with a 3-0 (25-11, 25-15, 25-8) win.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They continued their winning run in their second match against hosts Niger, winning 3-0 (25-4, 25-11, 25-4).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The team also swept aside Benin Republic with a dominant display in their third match, claiming a 3-0 (25-15, 25-15, 25-9) win to secure a rematch against Ghana in the final.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Speaking after the match, Coach Rakiya Mohammed thanked God for the victory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe bless God because this is the first time Nigeria is clinching trophy at the underage level. I feel so happy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe Ghanaians came all out but the girls proved their worth and we have now qualified for the world championship in Thailand\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nigeria defeated Ghana to lift the women&#8217;s trophy at the ongoing 2023 African U-21 Nations Volleyball Championship Zone 3 in Niamey, Niger Republic on Sunday. Team Nigeria went through the entire tournament without dropping a single set to be crowned champions while beating Ghana twice in the mix. Nigeria defeated&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2159,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[101,20,24,23],"class_list":["post-2158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-canada_nigeria-canadadev-actionaidnigeria-unwomen-nigeriawomenmatter","tag-genderequality","tag-feminism","tag-women"],"gutentor_comment":1,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wepbi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wepbi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wepbi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wepbi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wepbi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2158"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wepbi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2160,"href":"https:\/\/wepbi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2158\/revisions\/2160"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wepbi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wepbi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wepbi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wepbi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}