{"id":205599,"date":"2026-01-19T03:57:18","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T03:57:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=205599"},"modified":"2026-01-19T03:57:18","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T03:57:18","slug":"afcon-2025-ajayi-lookman-shine-as-super-eagles-defeat-tanzania","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=205599","title":{"rendered":"AFCON 2025: Ajayi, Lookman Shine As Super Eagles Defeat Tanzania"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AFRICAN EXAMINER) \u2013 Nigeria began their quest for a fourth Africa Cup of Nations (Afcon) title with a hard-fought victory over Tanzania in wet conditions in Fes. The Super Eagles took the lead in the 36th minute when defender Semi Ajayi glanced home a header from Alex Iwobi\u2019s inviting right-wing cross&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.africanexaminer.com\/afcon-2025-ajayi-lookman-shine-as-super-eagles-defeat-tanzania\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AFRICAN EXAMINER) \u2013 Nigeria began their quest for a fourth Africa Cup of Nations (Afcon)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":205600,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-205599","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\/205599-afcon-2025-ajayi-lookman-shine-as-super-eagles-defeat-tanzania.jpg",1200,900,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/205599-afcon-2025-ajayi-lookman-shine-as-super-eagles-defeat-tanzania-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/205599-afcon-2025-ajayi-lookman-shine-as-super-eagles-defeat-tanzania-300x225.jpg",300,225,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/205599-afcon-2025-ajayi-lookman-shine-as-super-eagles-defeat-tanzania-768x576.jpg",640,480,true],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/205599-afcon-2025-ajayi-lookman-shine-as-super-eagles-defeat-tanzania-1024x768.jpg",640,480,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/205599-afcon-2025-ajayi-lookman-shine-as-super-eagles-defeat-tanzania.jpg",1200,900,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/205599-afcon-2025-ajayi-lookman-shine-as-super-eagles-defeat-tanzania.jpg",1200,900,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/205599-afcon-2025-ajayi-lookman-shine-as-super-eagles-defeat-tanzania-1024x768.jpg",1024,768,true],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/205599-afcon-2025-ajayi-lookman-shine-as-super-eagles-defeat-tanzania-825x575.jpg",825,575,true],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/205599-afcon-2025-ajayi-lookman-shine-as-super-eagles-defeat-tanzania-590x410.jpg",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\/205599","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=205599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205599\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/205600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=205599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=205599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=205599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}