{"id":21231,"date":"2026-01-13T17:51:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T17:51:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/21231\/"},"modified":"2026-01-13T17:51:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T17:51:08","slug":"nigeria-vs-morocco-match-referee-officials-wey-go-run-di-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/21231\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria vs Morocco match: Referee, officials wey go run di show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/e77cf330-f09e-11f0-b5f7-49f0357294ff.jpg.webp.webp\"   alt=\"Victor Osimhen wear Nigeria dark green flowered jersey while Achraf Hakimi wear all white Morocco jersey\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1600 \/ 900\" class=\"css-1seqhu9\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"css-nyj3yn\" role=\"text\">Wia dis foto come from, Paul ELLIS \/ AFP via Getty Images)<\/p>\n<p>Wetin we call dis foto, Victor Osimhen of Nigeria\/ Achraf Hakimi of Morocco13 January 2026, 18:08 WAT<\/p>\n<p>New Informate 18 minutes wey don pass<\/p>\n<p>Read am in 3 mins<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" class=\"css-tmqcq9 e1yuyadm0\">Di semi-final matches for di 2025 Africa Cup of go start on Thursday, 14 January.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" class=\"css-tmqcq9 e1yuyadm0\">Egypt go face Senegal by 18.00 local time while Nigeria go jam hosts Morocco by 21:00.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" class=\"css-tmqcq9 e1yuyadm0\">Di matches na big games wey dey come wit plenti anticipation and pipo don dey chook eye for everytin including di pipo wey go officiate dis matches.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" class=\"css-tmqcq9 e1yuyadm0\">Names of match officials don trend for di tournament sake of dia decisions wey allegedly end di dreams of some kontris for di tournament.<\/p>\n<p>Kontinu to dey read<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" class=\"css-tmqcq9 e1yuyadm0\">Infact, some pipo believe say referee follow dey determine weda di match go sweet or not.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" class=\"css-tmqcq9 e1yuyadm0\">So who be di referees wey go officiate for di Nigeria vs Morocco match.<\/p>\n<p>Caf appointed referees<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" class=\"css-tmqcq9 e1yuyadm0\">Di Confederation of African football [Caf] organizers of di 2025 Africa Cup of Nations don release di list of pipo wey go officiate for dis match.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" class=\"css-tmqcq9 e1yuyadm0\">Referee &#8211; Daniel Niyi Ayi Laryea na di Centre Referee be dis and e come from Ghana.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" class=\"css-tmqcq9 e1yuyadm0\">Assistant Referee 1- Zakhele Thusi Granville Siwela from South Africa and na one of di assistant referees.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" class=\"css-tmqcq9 e1yuyadm0\">Assistant Referees &#8211; Souru Phatsoane, Arsenio Chadreque Maringule, di 4th official na Samuel Uwikunda&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" class=\"css-tmqcq9 e1yuyadm0\">VAR &#8211; Di one wey dey cause tok-tok well-well na di referee wey dey in charge of di Video Assistant Referee [Var].<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" class=\"css-tmqcq9 e1yuyadm0\">Im name na Abongile Tom wey from South Africa. <\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" class=\"css-tmqcq9 e1yuyadm0\">Oda officials wey dey on Var duty na Haythem Guirat wey from Tunisia, anoda South African, Stephen Onyango Yiembe and Ghanian Referee Assessor, Lidya Tafesse Abebe<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" class=\"css-tmqcq9 e1yuyadm0\">Nigeria and Morocco no find am easy to enta di semi-finals of di 2025 Afcon, dem beat beta teams wey get name to reach dis stage.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" class=\"css-tmqcq9 e1yuyadm0\">Nigeria win all dia Group C matches, sama Mozambique wotowoto for di Round of 16 den clear Algeria for di quarter-finals.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" class=\"css-tmqcq9 e1yuyadm0\">For Morocco, dem top dia Group wit seven points, remove Tanzania for di Round of 16, wire Cameroon 2-0 for di quarter-finals. <\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" class=\"css-tmqcq9 e1yuyadm0\">Di match on Wednesday na one wey pipo dey anticipate, and in di build up to dat game, fans dey chook eye and dey tok about everytin relating to di game including how di officiating fit make or break am.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wia dis foto come from, Paul ELLIS \/ AFP via Getty Images) Wetin we call dis foto, Victor&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21232,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[122],"class_list":{"0":"post-21231","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nigeria","8":"tag-nigeria"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21231\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}