{"id":155319,"date":"2025-03-15T22:33:57","date_gmt":"2025-03-15T21:33:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/npfl-plateau-utd-gives-reason-for-increase-in-gate-fee-for-pillars-clash"},"modified":"2025-03-26T23:57:31","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T22:57:31","slug":"npfl-plateau-utd-gives-reason-for-increase-in-gate-fee-for-pillars-clash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/npfl-plateau-utd-gives-reason-for-increase-in-gate-fee-for-pillars-clash","title":{"rendered":"NPFL: Plateau Utd gives reason for increase in gate fee for Pillars clash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>Plateau United have stated the reason for the increase in the gate fee for the Nigeria Premier Football League, NPFL, matchday 30 clash against Kano Pillars.<\/p>\n<p>The Peace Boys said the gesture is aimed at adopting a crowd control measure considering the fan base of both teams.<\/p>\n<p>Plateau United will lock horns with Kano Pillars at the New Jos Stadium on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Fans will be required to pay a minimum sum of N500 to gain entrance to the stadium.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFirst, following remote security reports ahead of the game, adopting crowd control measures remained very key in order to avoid a repeat of past unfortunate match Day experiences,\u201d Plateau United wrote on their Facebook page.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPlateau United and Kano Pillars boast very large following across northern Nigeria and considering the proximity of bordering states and available fan base, a number of crowd Management measures needed to be introduced.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith management currently grappling with recovering deducted points for fans\u2019 trouble, it was only strategic to adopt some strategies to contend with expected numbers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Nigeria<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. Plateau United have stated the reason for the increase in the gate fee for the Nigeria Premier Football League, NPFL, matchday 30 clash against Kano Pillars. The Peace Boys said the gesture is aimed at adopting a crowd control measure considering the fan base of both teams. Plateau United will lock horns [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":155318,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,18],"tags":[3811,254,579,8900],"class_list":["post-155319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-sport","tag-kano-pillars","tag-nigeria","tag-npfl","tag-plateau-utd"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>NPFL: Plateau Utd gives reason for increase in gate fee for Pillars clash - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Plateau United have stated the reason for the increase in the gate fee for the Nigeria Premier Football League, NPFL, ma ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/npfl-plateau-utd-gives-reason-for-increase-in-gate-fee-for-pillars-clash\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"NPFL: Plateau Utd gives reason for increase in gate fee for Pillars clash\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Plateau United have stated the reason for the increase in the gate fee for the Nigeria Premier Football League, NPFL, ma ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/npfl-plateau-utd-gives-reason-for-increase-in-gate-fee-for-pillars-clash\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-03-15T21:33:57+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-03-26T22:57:31+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/03\/sm_1742066147.896921.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"720\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"771\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/npfl-plateau-utd-gives-reason-for-increase-in-gate-fee-for-pillars-clash#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/npfl-plateau-utd-gives-reason-for-increase-in-gate-fee-for-pillars-clash\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"NPFL: Plateau Utd gives reason for increase in gate fee for Pillars clash\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-03-15T21:33:57+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-03-26T22:57:31+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/npfl-plateau-utd-gives-reason-for-increase-in-gate-fee-for-pillars-clash\"},\"wordCount\":195,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/npfl-plateau-utd-gives-reason-for-increase-in-gate-fee-for-pillars-clash#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/03\/sm_1742066147.896921.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Kano pillars\",\"Nigeria\",\"NPFL\",\"Plateau Utd\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Sport\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/npfl-plateau-utd-gives-reason-for-increase-in-gate-fee-for-pillars-clash#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/npfl-plateau-utd-gives-reason-for-increase-in-gate-fee-for-pillars-clash\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/npfl-plateau-utd-gives-reason-for-increase-in-gate-fee-for-pillars-clash\",\"name\":\"NPFL: Plateau Utd gives reason for increase in gate fee for Pillars clash - Nigeria\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/npfl-plateau-utd-gives-reason-for-increase-in-gate-fee-for-pillars-clash#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/npfl-plateau-utd-gives-reason-for-increase-in-gate-fee-for-pillars-clash#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/03\/sm_1742066147.896921.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-03-15T21:33:57+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-03-26T22:57:31+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"description\":\"Plateau United have stated the reason for the increase in the gate fee for the Nigeria Premier Football League, NPFL, ma ...\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/npfl-plateau-utd-gives-reason-for-increase-in-gate-fee-for-pillars-clash#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/npfl-plateau-utd-gives-reason-for-increase-in-gate-fee-for-pillars-clash\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/npfl-plateau-utd-gives-reason-for-increase-in-gate-fee-for-pillars-clash#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/03\/sm_1742066147.896921.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/03\/sm_1742066147.896921.jpg\",\"width\":720,\"height\":771,\"caption\":\"NPFL: Plateau Utd gives reason for increase in gate fee for Pillars clash\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/npfl-plateau-utd-gives-reason-for-increase-in-gate-fee-for-pillars-clash#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"NPFL: Plateau Utd gives reason for increase in gate fee for Pillars clash\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/\",\"name\":\"Africa Press | Nigeria | Homepage\",\"description\":\"Just another Africa News Agency Sites site\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\",\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/author\/cfeditoren\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"NPFL: Plateau Utd gives reason for increase in gate fee for Pillars clash - Nigeria","description":"Plateau United have stated the reason for the increase in the gate fee for the Nigeria Premier Football League, NPFL, ma ...","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/npfl-plateau-utd-gives-reason-for-increase-in-gate-fee-for-pillars-clash","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"NPFL: Plateau Utd gives reason for increase in gate fee for Pillars clash","og_description":"Plateau United have stated the reason for the increase in the gate fee for the Nigeria Premier Football League, NPFL, ma ...","og_url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/npfl-plateau-utd-gives-reason-for-increase-in-gate-fee-for-pillars-clash","og_site_name":"Nigeria","article_published_time":"2025-03-15T21:33:57+00:00","article_modified_time":"2025-03-26T22:57:31+00:00","og_image":[{"width":720,"height":771,"url":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/03\/sm_1742066147.896921.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"cfeditoren","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"cfeditoren","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/npfl-plateau-utd-gives-reason-for-increase-in-gate-fee-for-pillars-clash#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/npfl-plateau-utd-gives-reason-for-increase-in-gate-fee-for-pillars-clash"},"author":{"name":"cfeditoren","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb"},"headline":"NPFL: Plateau Utd gives reason for increase in gate fee for Pillars clash","datePublished":"2025-03-15T21:33:57+00:00","dateModified":"2025-03-26T22:57:31+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/npfl-plateau-utd-gives-reason-for-increase-in-gate-fee-for-pillars-clash"},"wordCount":195,"commentCount":0,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/npfl-plateau-utd-gives-reason-for-increase-in-gate-fee-for-pillars-clash#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/03\/sm_1742066147.896921.jpg","keywords":["Kano pillars","Nigeria","NPFL","Plateau Utd"],"articleSection":["all news","Sport"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/npfl-plateau-utd-gives-reason-for-increase-in-gate-fee-for-pillars-clash#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/npfl-plateau-utd-gives-reason-for-increase-in-gate-fee-for-pillars-clash","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/npfl-plateau-utd-gives-reason-for-increase-in-gate-fee-for-pillars-clash","name":"NPFL: Plateau Utd gives reason for increase in gate fee for Pillars clash - Nigeria","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/npfl-plateau-utd-gives-reason-for-increase-in-gate-fee-for-pillars-clash#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/npfl-plateau-utd-gives-reason-for-increase-in-gate-fee-for-pillars-clash#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/03\/sm_1742066147.896921.jpg","datePublished":"2025-03-15T21:33:57+00:00","dateModified":"2025-03-26T22:57:31+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb"},"description":"Plateau United have stated the reason for the increase in the gate fee for the Nigeria Premier Football League, NPFL, ma ...","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/npfl-plateau-utd-gives-reason-for-increase-in-gate-fee-for-pillars-clash#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/npfl-plateau-utd-gives-reason-for-increase-in-gate-fee-for-pillars-clash"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/npfl-plateau-utd-gives-reason-for-increase-in-gate-fee-for-pillars-clash#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/03\/sm_1742066147.896921.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/03\/sm_1742066147.896921.jpg","width":720,"height":771,"caption":"NPFL: Plateau Utd gives reason for increase in gate fee for Pillars clash"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/npfl-plateau-utd-gives-reason-for-increase-in-gate-fee-for-pillars-clash#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"NPFL: Plateau Utd gives reason for increase in gate fee for Pillars clash"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/","name":"Africa Press | Nigeria | Homepage","description":"Just another Africa News Agency Sites site","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb","name":"cfeditoren","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/author\/cfeditoren"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155319\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/155318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}