{"id":175998,"date":"2025-08-25T11:21:40","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T10:21:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/kano-pillars-coach-questions-officiating-after-loss"},"modified":"2025-08-25T12:24:24","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T11:24:24","slug":"kano-pillars-coach-questions-officiating-after-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/kano-pillars-coach-questions-officiating-after-loss","title":{"rendered":"Kano Pillars Coach Questions Officiating After Loss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>Kano Pillars technical adviser, Evans Ogenyi has questioned officiating in his team\u2019s opening day 1-0 defeat to Abia Warriors.<\/p>\n<p>Paul Samson\u2019s lone strike earned Abia Warriors the maximum points against Kano Pillars in Umuahia on Sunday night.<\/p>\n<p>Ogenyi admitted that the encounter was keenly contested by both teams.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was a keenly contested game from both teams but it was unfortunate that we lost the game,\u201d Ogenyi stated in a post-match interview.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s not in my character to query officiating but I will say we lost to questionable officiating.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kano Pillars will do battle with Wikki Tourists in their next fixture at the Sani Abacha Stadium.<\/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. Kano Pillars technical adviser, Evans Ogenyi has questioned officiating in his team\u2019s opening day 1-0 defeat to Abia Warriors. Paul Samson\u2019s lone strike earned Abia Warriors the maximum points against Kano Pillars in Umuahia on Sunday night. Ogenyi admitted that the encounter was keenly contested by both teams. \u201cIt was a keenly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":175997,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,18],"tags":[1658,3811,254,579,10747],"class_list":["post-175998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-sport","tag-abia-warriors","tag-kano-pillars","tag-nigeria","tag-npfl","tag-ogenyi"],"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>Kano Pillars Coach Questions Officiating After Loss - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Kano Pillars technical adviser, Evans Ogenyi has questioned officiating in his team\u2019s opening day 1-0 defeat to Abia War ...\" \/>\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\/kano-pillars-coach-questions-officiating-after-loss\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Kano Pillars Coach Questions Officiating After Loss\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Kano Pillars technical adviser, Evans Ogenyi has questioned officiating in his team\u2019s opening day 1-0 defeat to Abia War ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/kano-pillars-coach-questions-officiating-after-loss\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-08-25T10:21:40+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-08-25T11:24:24+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/08\/sm_1756108614.219817.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1280\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"720\" \/>\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\/kano-pillars-coach-questions-officiating-after-loss#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/kano-pillars-coach-questions-officiating-after-loss\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Kano Pillars Coach Questions Officiating After Loss\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-08-25T10:21:40+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-08-25T11:24:24+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/kano-pillars-coach-questions-officiating-after-loss\"},\"wordCount\":128,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/kano-pillars-coach-questions-officiating-after-loss#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/08\/sm_1756108614.219817.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Abia Warriors\",\"Kano pillars\",\"Nigeria\",\"NPFL\",\"Ogenyi\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Sport\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/kano-pillars-coach-questions-officiating-after-loss#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/kano-pillars-coach-questions-officiating-after-loss\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/kano-pillars-coach-questions-officiating-after-loss\",\"name\":\"Kano Pillars Coach Questions Officiating After Loss - 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