{"id":9749,"date":"2026-11-05T09:32:30","date_gmt":"2026-11-05T09:32:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/05\/2027-u-23-afconq-ugandan-official-to-officiate-dr-congo-olympic-eagles-first-leg\/"},"modified":"2026-11-05T09:32:30","modified_gmt":"2026-11-05T09:32:30","slug":"2027-u-23-afconq-ugandan-official-to-officiate-dr-congo-olympic-eagles-first-leg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/05\/2027-u-23-afconq-ugandan-official-to-officiate-dr-congo-olympic-eagles-first-leg\/","title":{"rendered":"2027 U-23 AFCONQ: Ugandan Official To Officiate DR Congo\u2013Olympic Eagles First Leg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ugandan referee Duula Joshua has been appointed to take charge of the first-leg encounter between Nigeria\u2019s Olympic Eagles and the Democratic Republic of Congo in the second round of the 2027 Africa U-23 Cup of Nations qualifiers.<\/p>\n<p>The match is scheduled to take place at the TP Mazembe Stadium in Lubumbashi on Friday, November 13.<\/p>\n<p>Joshua will be assisted by fellow Ugandans Brianson Musisi, who will serve as first assistant referee, and Katerega Ashiraf, the second assistant referee.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read Also:<a href=\"https:\/\/www.completesports.com\/2027-u-23-afconq-olympic-eagles-begin-preparations-for-dr-congo-clash\/\">2027 U-23 AFCONQ: Olympic Eagles Begin Preparations For DR Congo Clash<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Another Ugandan, William Oloya, has been appointed as the fourth official.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Central African Republic officials Jean Marie Koyakobo and Alain Brice Letokouzou will serve as match commissioner and referee assessor, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>The return leg will be played in Nigeria at the Remo Stars Sports Complex in Ikenne on Tuesday, November 17.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>By Adeboye Amosu<\/strong> <\/em><\/p>\n<p>Source: <\/p>\n<div class=\"nSourse\">Complete Sports<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ugandan referee Duula Joshua has been appointed to take charge of the first-leg encounter between Nigeria\u2019s Olympic Eagles and the Democratic Republic of Congo in the second round of the&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9750,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9749","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=9749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9749\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}