{"id":15095,"date":"2026-11-11T14:32:08","date_gmt":"2026-11-11T14:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/11\/video-first-lady-receives-flamingos-in-aso-villa\/"},"modified":"2026-11-11T14:32:08","modified_gmt":"2026-11-11T14:32:08","slug":"video-first-lady-receives-flamingos-in-aso-villa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/11\/video-first-lady-receives-flamingos-in-aso-villa\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: First lady receives Flamingos in Aso Villa"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"452\" height=\"352\" src=\"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/Video-First-lady-receives-Flamingos-in-Aso-Villa.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt=\"Video: First lady receives Flamingos in Aso Villa\" decoding=\"async\" srcset=\"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/Video-First-lady-receives-Flamingos-in-Aso-Villa.jpg 452w, https:\/\/cdn.vanguardngr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Remi-Tinubu-300x234.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 452px) 100vw, 452px\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Nigeria\u2019s First Lady, Senator Oluremi Tinubu, on Wednesday hosted the Flamingos at the Presidential Villa in Abuja following their historic victory at the FIFA U-17 Women\u2019s World Cup in Morocco.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mrs Tinubu welcomed the players on behalf of President Bola Tinubu, alongside the wife of the vice-president, Nana Shettima, and other government officials.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-x wp-block-embed-x\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"embed-x\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">First Lady Remi Tinubu receives Nigeria&#8217;s Flamingos at the Presidential Villa on behalf of President Tinubu after their historic U-17 World Cup triumph.<\/p>\n<p>Video Credit : NTA News <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/PQUYCSZMYr\">pic.twitter.com\/PQUYCSZMYr<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Vanguard Newspapers (@vanguardngrnews) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/vanguardngrnews\/status\/2120512575980933292?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 11, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At the reception, the First Lady presented flowers to members of the team in recognition of their achievement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Flamingos made history on Saturday by defeating Japan 2-1 in the final, becoming the first African country to win the FIFA U-17 Women\u2019s World Cup.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Awawu Bashiru gave Nigeria the lead in the 39th minute, while Oluebube Umejiaku extended the advantage shortly after the second half began. Japan pulled one back through Fuki Ito in the 80th minute, but Nigeria held on to secure the title.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">President Tinubu had earlier congratulated the team, describing their victory as a landmark achievement for Nigeria and women\u2019s football in Africa.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanguardngr.com\/2026\/11\/video-first-lady-receives-flamingos-in-aso-villa\/\">Video: First lady receives Flamingos in Aso Villa<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanguardngr.com\/\">Vanguard News<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Source: <\/p>\n<div class=\"nSourse\">Vanguard News<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nigeria\u2019s First Lady, Senator Oluremi Tinubu, on Wednesday hosted the Flamingos at the Presidential Villa in Abuja following their historic victory at the FIFA U-17 Women\u2019s World Cup in Morocco.&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15096,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15095\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}