{"id":8815,"date":"2022-11-08T20:58:48","date_gmt":"2022-11-08T20:58:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onwardnews24.com\/?p=8815"},"modified":"2022-11-08T20:58:52","modified_gmt":"2022-11-08T20:58:52","slug":"obaseki-oshoala-amusan-receive-sheroes-highest-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onwardnews24.com\/obaseki-oshoala-amusan-receive-sheroes-highest-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"Obaseki, Oshoala, Amusan receive Sheroes highest awards"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Nigerian sensational sprinter and World record holder Tobi Amusan on Tuesday November 8 bagged 2022 Sheroes of the year award at Merit House in Abuja.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Amusan who won gold and broke records in 100m hurdles at this year’s World Championship and Commonwealth Games was among outstanding Nigerian sports men and women that were honoured for various categories of the Sheroes awards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Edo State First Lady Mrs Betsy Obaseki picked up Sheroes Trailblazer of the year award.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Board member of the Nigeria Football Federation, Rt. Hon. Margaret Icheen earned the Sheroes Lifetime Achievement award while Managing Director of Fidelity Bank Mrs Nneka Onyeali-Ikpe bagged Sheroes Capital Achievement award.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Nigeria U17 women’s Manager, Bankole Olowookere was presented with the Sheroes Sports Icon of the year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Coach Olowokere led the Flamingoes who recently beat all odds to win bronze at the just concluded FIFA U17 Women’s World Cup, a feat that Nigeria was unable to attain in the past at the competition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Other awardees were Super Falcons player Monday Gift (Sheroes Women Football Rising Star of the year), Coach Emmanuel Osahon (Sheroes Women Football Talent Developer of the year, Ruqayyah Adeboye (Sheroes Humanitarian of the year), Nelly Orisakwe (Sheroes Women Football Grassroots Coach of the year) and Ayisat Yusuf-Aromire (Sheroes Girl-Child Advocate of the year).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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There was also posthumous award for late Alhaji Tewogboye Oyewole as Sheroes Pioneer of Women’s Football in Nigeria.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of the 36 states in Nigeria, Lagos State Football Association was decorated as Sheroes Most Outstanding Women’s Football Development FA of the year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Nigerian sensational sprinter and World record holder Tobi Amusan on Tuesday November 8 bagged 2022 Sheroes of the year award at Merit House in Abuja. Amusan who won gold and broke records in 100m hurdles at this year’s World Championship and Commonwealth Games was among outstanding Nigerian sports men and women that were honoured for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8820,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,2],"tags":[182,2397,2084,635,407,865,3232,2940],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onwardnews24.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8815"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onwardnews24.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onwardnews24.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onwardnews24.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onwardnews24.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8815"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.onwardnews24.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8815\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8821,"href":"https:\/\/www.onwardnews24.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8815\/revisions\/8821"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onwardnews24.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onwardnews24.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onwardnews24.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onwardnews24.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}