{"id":120,"date":"2017-05-02T15:47:35","date_gmt":"2017-05-02T15:47:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madhousenaija.com\/?p=120"},"modified":"2017-05-02T15:47:35","modified_gmt":"2017-05-02T15:47:35","slug":"nigeria-congratulates-anthony-joshua","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=120","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria Congratulates Anthony Joshua"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"m_-6664151855903683039gmail-yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493704680391_11684\" dir=\"ltr\">The Federal Government has congratulated British professional boxer of\u00a0Nigerian descent Anthony Oluwafemi Joshua, who recently defeated\u00a0Ukranian Wladimir Klitschko to become the unified World Heavyweight\u00a0Champion.<\/div>\n<div id=\"m_-6664151855903683039gmail-yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493704680391_11686\" dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"m_-6664151855903683039gmail-yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493704680391_11692\" dir=\"ltr\">In a statement issued in Lagos on Tuesday, the Minister of Information\u00a0and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, said Nigeria is proud to be\u00a0associated with the new unified World champion, whose Nigerian\u00a0heritage he has publicly acknowledged.<\/div>\n<div id=\"m_-6664151855903683039gmail-yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493704680391_11689\" dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"m_-6664151855903683039gmail-yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493704680391_11690\" dir=\"ltr\">&#8221;My heart is in Nigeria, My heart is in Britain. I am a Nigerian man\u00a0by blood, yes,&#8221; the Minister quoted Joshua as saying in a recent\u00a0interview, during which the boxer also listed the secret of his success as\u00a0pounded yam, eba and egusi &#8211; all Nigerian cuisine.<\/div>\n<div id=\"m_-6664151855903683039gmail-yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493704680391_11708\" dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"m_-6664151855903683039gmail-yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493704680391_11709\" dir=\"ltr\">He hailed Joshua for his humility, despite his success in boxing, and\u00a0his undying spirit, coming off the canvas after he was knocked down by\u00a0Klitschko in the sixth round to win by a Technical Knock Out in the\u00a011th round of their pulsating fight.<\/div>\n<div id=\"m_-6664151855903683039gmail-yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493704680391_11713\" dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"m_-6664151855903683039gmail-yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493704680391_11714\" dir=\"ltr\">Alhaji Mohammed said the government will soon invite the new World\u00a0Heavyweight Champion to Nigeria, especially as he has said he is\u00a0looking forward to giving something back to the country.<\/div>\n<div id=\"m_-6664151855903683039gmail-yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493704680391_11717\" dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"m_-6664151855903683039gmail-yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493704680391_11718\" dir=\"ltr\"><i>Segun Adeyemi<br \/>\n<\/i><\/div>\n<div id=\"m_-6664151855903683039gmail-yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493704680391_11719\" dir=\"ltr\"><i>SA to Hon Minister of Information and Culture<br \/>\n<\/i><\/div>\n<div id=\"m_-6664151855903683039gmail-yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493704680391_11720\" dir=\"ltr\"><i>Lagos<br \/>\n<\/i><\/div>\n<div id=\"m_-6664151855903683039gmail-yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493704680391_11721\" dir=\"ltr\"><i>2 May 2017<\/i><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Federal Government has congratulated British professional boxer of\u00a0Nigerian descent Anthony Oluwafemi Joshua, who recently defeated\u00a0Ukranian Wladimir Klitschko to become the unified World Heavyweight\u00a0Champion. In a statement issued in Lagos on Tuesday, the Minister of Information\u00a0and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, said Nigeria is proud to be\u00a0associated with the new unified World champion, whose Nigerian\u00a0heritage he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":121,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[154,152,155,93,159,151,153,160,156,157,158],"class_list":["post-120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-anthony-oluwafemi-joshua","tag-boxer","tag-boxing","tag-british","tag-champion","tag-federal-government","tag-nigerian","tag-technical-knock-out","tag-ukranian","tag-wladimir-klitschko","tag-world-heavyweight"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=120"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":122,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120\/revisions\/122"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}