{"id":232949,"date":"2025-07-23T12:17:23","date_gmt":"2025-07-23T12:17:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abianewscentral.com.ng\/wafcon-tinubus-wife-atiku-celebrate-super-falcons-for-beating-south-africa\/"},"modified":"2025-07-23T12:17:23","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T12:17:23","slug":"wafcon-tinubus-wife-atiku-celebrate-super-falcons-for-beating-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wafcon-tinubus-wife-atiku-celebrate-super-falcons-for-beating-south-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"WAFCON: Tinubu\u2019s wife, Atiku celebrate Super Falcons for beating South Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WAFCON: Tinubu\u2019s wife, Atiku celebrate Super Falcons for beating South Africa<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">\n<p>Senator Oluremi Tinubu, Nigeria\u2019s First Lady, and former Vice President Atiku Abubakar have celebrated the Super Falcons for beating South Africa at the 2024 Women\u2019s Africa Cup of Nations, WAFCON, semi-final encounter on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>DAILY POST reports that goals from Rasheedat Ajibade and Michelle Alozie gave Nigeria the victory against Banyana Banyana at the Stade Larbi Zaouli.<\/p>\n<p>The Super Eagles will now face Morocco in the WAFCON final this weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Reacting, Atiku, in a tweet via his X account said Nigerians are behind the Super Falcons as he urged them to go for glory against Morocco in the final.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCongratulations to our Super Falcons on their 2-1 victory over South Africa to reach the #WAFCON final,\u201d Atiku wrote.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are fully behind you even as you head for overall victory in the finals.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On her part, Oluremi Tinubu commended the girls for beating South Africa.<\/p>\n<p>She wrote: \u201cI commend you, our incredible Super Falcons for your victory over South Africa in the semi-finals of the Women\u2019s Africa Cup of Nations Championship.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou have once again shown the world the strength, courage, and brilliance of Nigerian women. Your passion, discipline, and unity on the field are a shining example to young girls everywhere that nothing good is beyond reach.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis win is more than just a ticket to the finals of the Championship, but a powerful reminder of what we can achieve when we believe in ourselves and stand together.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI look forward to you lifting the Cup by the grace of God. May you finish strong.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async defer crossorigin=\"anonymous\" src=\"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&amp;version=v9.0&amp;appId=420332301344305\" nonce=\"sm97MhBO\" type=\"pmdelayedscript\" data-cfasync=\"false\" data-no-optimize=\"1\" data-no-defer=\"1\" data-no-minify=\"1\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/>Atiku, South Africa, super falcons, Tinubu, WAFCON,<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/dailypost.ng\/2025\/07\/23\/wafcon-tinubus-wife-atiku-celebrate-super-falcons-for-beating-south-africa\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WAFCON: Tinubu\u2019s wife, Atiku celebrate Super Falcons for beating South Africa Senator Oluremi Tinubu, Nigeria\u2019s First Lady, and former Vice President Atiku Abubakar have celebrated the Super Falcons for beating South Africa at the 2024 Women\u2019s Africa Cup of Nations, WAFCON, semi-final encounter on Tuesday. DAILY POST reports that goals from Rasheedat Ajibade and Michelle [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":232950,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[6],"tags":[483,876,347,179,348],"class_list":["post-232949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-atiku","tag-south-africa","tag-super-falcons","tag-tinubu","tag-wafcon"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=232949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232949\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}