{"id":205478,"date":"2026-01-18T16:57:43","date_gmt":"2026-01-18T16:57:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=205478"},"modified":"2026-01-18T16:57:43","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T16:57:43","slug":"nigeria-2-1-tanzania-lookman-and-ajayi-fire-super-eagles-to-winning-afcon-2025-start","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=205478","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria 2\u20131 Tanzania: Lookman and Ajayi fire Super Eagles to winning AFCON 2025 start"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nigeria opened their 2025 Africa Cup of Nations campaign with a hard-fought 2\u20131 victory over Tanzania on Tuesday evening, edging past stubborn opposition to secure three valuable points in Group C, Soccernet.ng reports. Goals from defender Semi Ajayi and forward Ademola Lookman were enough to give Eric Chelle a winning start to his AFCON reign&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/soccernet.ng\/2025\/12\/nigeria-tanzana-lookman-super-eagle-afcon.html\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nigeria opened their 2025 Africa Cup of Nations campaign with a hard-fought 2\u20131 victory over<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":205479,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-205478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-africa"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/205478-nigeria-2-1-tanzania-lookman-and-ajayi-fire-super-eagles-to-winning-afcon-2025-start.jpeg",1033,581,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/205478-nigeria-2-1-tanzania-lookman-and-ajayi-fire-super-eagles-to-winning-afcon-2025-start-150x150.jpeg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/205478-nigeria-2-1-tanzania-lookman-and-ajayi-fire-super-eagles-to-winning-afcon-2025-start-300x169.jpeg",300,169,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/205478-nigeria-2-1-tanzania-lookman-and-ajayi-fire-super-eagles-to-winning-afcon-2025-start-768x432.jpeg",640,360,true],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/205478-nigeria-2-1-tanzania-lookman-and-ajayi-fire-super-eagles-to-winning-afcon-2025-start-1024x576.jpeg",640,360,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/205478-nigeria-2-1-tanzania-lookman-and-ajayi-fire-super-eagles-to-winning-afcon-2025-start.jpeg",1033,581,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/205478-nigeria-2-1-tanzania-lookman-and-ajayi-fire-super-eagles-to-winning-afcon-2025-start.jpeg",1033,581,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/205478-nigeria-2-1-tanzania-lookman-and-ajayi-fire-super-eagles-to-winning-afcon-2025-start-1024x576.jpeg",1024,576,true],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/205478-nigeria-2-1-tanzania-lookman-and-ajayi-fire-super-eagles-to-winning-afcon-2025-start-825x575.jpeg",825,575,true],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/205478-nigeria-2-1-tanzania-lookman-and-ajayi-fire-super-eagles-to-winning-afcon-2025-start-590x410.jpeg",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=40\" rel=\"category\">Africa<\/a>","tag_info":"Africa","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=205478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205478\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/205479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=205478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=205478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=205478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}