{"id":157384,"date":"2025-03-31T23:03:29","date_gmt":"2025-03-31T22:03:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/npfl-lobi-stars-forward-okafor-recounts-attack-on-players-by-thugs"},"modified":"2025-04-04T15:22:58","modified_gmt":"2025-04-04T14:22:58","slug":"npfl-lobi-stars-forward-okafor-recounts-attack-on-players-by-thugs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/npfl-lobi-stars-forward-okafor-recounts-attack-on-players-by-thugs","title":{"rendered":"NPFL: Lobi Stars forward Okafor recounts attack on players by thugs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>Lobi Stars forward, Onyekachi Okafor has reacted to the attack on the team by some unidentified supporters of the club<\/p>\n<p>The players and officials of the club were attacked by thugs during Sunday\u2019s training session at the playing ground of the government model college in Makurdi.<\/p>\n<p>Okafor pointed out that there is no security for the players at the training ground.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was also beaten by the thugs, there was no safety for the players,\u201d Okafor said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMembers of the management were on ground nobody touched them. The incident took place at our playing ground.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The management of the club has debunked allegations it sent thugs to attack players and officials of the club.<\/p>\n<p>Lobi Stars are currently languishing at the bottom of the league table.<\/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. Lobi Stars forward, Onyekachi Okafor has reacted to the attack on the team by some unidentified supporters of the club The players and officials of the club were attacked by thugs during Sunday\u2019s training session at the playing ground of the government model college in Makurdi. Okafor pointed out that there is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":157383,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,18],"tags":[9366,254,579,7753],"class_list":["post-157384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-sport","tag-lobi-stars","tag-nigeria","tag-npfl","tag-okafor"],"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: Lobi Stars forward Okafor recounts attack on players by thugs - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Lobi Stars forward, Onyekachi Okafor has reacted to the attack on the team by some unidentified supporters of the club ...\" \/>\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-lobi-stars-forward-okafor-recounts-attack-on-players-by-thugs\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"NPFL: Lobi Stars forward Okafor recounts attack on players by thugs\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Lobi Stars forward, Onyekachi Okafor has reacted to the attack on the team by some unidentified supporters of the club ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/npfl-lobi-stars-forward-okafor-recounts-attack-on-players-by-thugs\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-03-31T22:03:29+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-04-04T14:22:58+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/04\/sm_1743449725.994431.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"800\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"800\" \/>\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-lobi-stars-forward-okafor-recounts-attack-on-players-by-thugs#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/npfl-lobi-stars-forward-okafor-recounts-attack-on-players-by-thugs\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"NPFL: Lobi Stars forward Okafor recounts attack on players by thugs\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-03-31T22:03:29+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-04-04T14:22:58+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/npfl-lobi-stars-forward-okafor-recounts-attack-on-players-by-thugs\"},\"wordCount\":150,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/npfl-lobi-stars-forward-okafor-recounts-attack-on-players-by-thugs#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/04\/sm_1743449725.994431.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Lobi Stars\",\"Nigeria\",\"NPFL\",\"okafor\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Sport\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/npfl-lobi-stars-forward-okafor-recounts-attack-on-players-by-thugs#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/npfl-lobi-stars-forward-okafor-recounts-attack-on-players-by-thugs\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/npfl-lobi-stars-forward-okafor-recounts-attack-on-players-by-thugs\",\"name\":\"NPFL: Lobi Stars forward Okafor recounts attack on players by thugs - 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