{"id":53118,"date":"2025-02-24T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-02-24T18:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/nigerian-footballer-lawal-perishes-in-road-accident-in-uganda\/"},"modified":"2025-02-24T21:12:14","modified_gmt":"2025-02-24T21:12:14","slug":"nigerian-footballer-lawal-perishes-in-road-accident-in-uganda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/nigerian-footballer-lawal-perishes-in-road-accident-in-uganda\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigerian footballer Lawal perishes in road accident in Uganda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 29-year-old Lawal was reportedly heading to the club\u2019s training ground at St. Mary\u2019s Stadium in Entebbe, Central Region of Uganda, but got involved in an accident on Entebbe Road that claimed his life.<\/p>\n<p>Abdul Wasike, the Vipers SC head of communications confirmed the sad news on Monday. \u201cIt is a sad day as we communicate the death of our player Lawal. We are still trying to gather more information about the accident,\u201d said Wasike.<\/p>\n<p>The Nigerian forward, who played a pivotal part for SC Vipers, joined the club in 2022 from Rwanda Premier League side AS Kigali.<\/p>\n<p>He previously played in the Nigerian Premier League with Kano Pillars FC, Wikki Tourists FC and FC Nasarawa.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-82375 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/gki32wvwiaaoj6m-d7984.jpg\" alt=\"Lawal was part of the AS Kigali side that won the 2022 Super Cup.\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-82376 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/eokestjxcae-qrt-a895a.jpg\" alt=\"Lawal got involved in an accident on Entebbe Road that claimed his life.\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-82374 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/img_20220718_160128_439-768x512-1-16305.jpg\" alt=\"The 29-year-old Lawal was reportedly heading to the club\u2019s training ground at St. Mary\u2019s Stadium in Entebbe.\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-82377 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/gki1p0txoaa2snn-d6542.jpg\" alt=\"He previously played in the Nigerian Premier League with Kano Pillars FC, Wikki Tourists FC and FC Nasarawa.\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nigerian forward Abubakar Lawal, who plies his trade with Uganda Premier League side Vipers Sports Club, died in a traffic accident in Uganda on Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":135,"featured_media":2000082373,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[75],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-53118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-homenews","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"featured_image":{"id":2000082373,"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/profile-338.jpg","alt":"","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","width":0,"height":0,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/profile-338.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/profile-338.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium_large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/profile-338.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/profile-338.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"full":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/profile-338.jpg","width":0,"height":0}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/135"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53118\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000082373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53118"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=53118"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=53118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}