{"id":179311,"date":"2025-09-17T20:51:36","date_gmt":"2025-09-17T19:51:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/wikki-tourists-will-bounce-back-from-nasarawa-defeat"},"modified":"2025-09-17T22:19:01","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T21:19:01","slug":"wikki-tourists-will-bounce-back-from-nasarawa-defeat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/wikki-tourists-will-bounce-back-from-nasarawa-defeat","title":{"rendered":"Wikki Tourists Will Bounce Back from Nasarawa Defeat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>Wikki Tourists\u2019 technical adviser, Abdullahi Maikaba, says he remains positive about his team despite their 1-0 defeat to Nasarawa United.<\/p>\n<p>It was the Bauchi Elephants\u2019 first loss of the season.<\/p>\n<p>Maikaba stated that he has identified areas in need of improvement within the squad.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve identified where we need to improve, and we\u2019ll go back to the drawing board and work on those lapses ahead of our next game in Katsina,\u201d Maikaba told the club\u2019s media.<\/p>\n<p>Wikki Tourists will face Katsina United next in a matchday five fixture at the Muhammadu Dikko Stadium in Katsina this weekend.<\/p>\n<p>The Bauchi club currently occupy fourth place on the league table with seven points.<\/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. Wikki Tourists\u2019 technical adviser, Abdullahi Maikaba, says he remains positive about his team despite their 1-0 defeat to Nasarawa United. It was the Bauchi Elephants\u2019 first loss of the season. Maikaba stated that he has identified areas in need of improvement within the squad. \u201cWe\u2019ve identified where we need to improve, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":179310,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,18],"tags":[1490,9552,254,579,3076],"class_list":["post-179311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-sport","tag-maikaba","tag-nasarawa-united","tag-nigeria","tag-npfl","tag-wikki-tourists"],"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>Wikki Tourists Will Bounce Back from Nasarawa Defeat - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Wikki Tourists\u2019 technical adviser, Abdullahi Maikaba, says he remains positive about his team despite their 1-0 defeat t ...\" \/>\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\/wikki-tourists-will-bounce-back-from-nasarawa-defeat\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Wikki Tourists Will Bounce Back from Nasarawa Defeat\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Wikki Tourists\u2019 technical adviser, Abdullahi Maikaba, says he remains positive about his team despite their 1-0 defeat t ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/wikki-tourists-will-bounce-back-from-nasarawa-defeat\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-09-17T19:51:36+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-09-17T21:19:01+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/09\/sm_1758131537.755467.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1024\" \/>\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\/wikki-tourists-will-bounce-back-from-nasarawa-defeat#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/wikki-tourists-will-bounce-back-from-nasarawa-defeat\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Wikki Tourists Will Bounce Back from Nasarawa Defeat\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-09-17T19:51:36+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-09-17T21:19:01+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/wikki-tourists-will-bounce-back-from-nasarawa-defeat\"},\"wordCount\":134,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/wikki-tourists-will-bounce-back-from-nasarawa-defeat#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/09\/sm_1758131537.755467.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Maikaba\",\"Nasarawa United\",\"Nigeria\",\"NPFL\",\"Wikki Tourists'\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Sport\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/wikki-tourists-will-bounce-back-from-nasarawa-defeat#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/wikki-tourists-will-bounce-back-from-nasarawa-defeat\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/wikki-tourists-will-bounce-back-from-nasarawa-defeat\",\"name\":\"Wikki Tourists Will Bounce Back from Nasarawa Defeat - 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