{"id":3200,"date":"2024-06-26T10:30:30","date_gmt":"2024-06-26T09:30:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mcu.edu.ng\/?p=3200"},"modified":"2026-07-08T13:42:30","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T13:42:30","slug":"mcu-holds-11th-marathon-june-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mcu.edu.ng\/main\/mcu-holds-11th-marathon-june-26\/","title":{"rendered":"McU Holds 11th Marathon, June 26"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The much-awaited annual marathon event of McPherson University, Seriki Sotayo, Ogun State is billed for Wednesday, June 26, 2024 at the Car Park of College of Computing by 8:00 a.m.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br>This year&#8217;s marathon is the eleventh in the series and is expected to attract sports enthusiasts from far and near.<br>As a boost for this year&#8217;s event, the University under his amiable Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Francis Igbasan, has scaled up the monetary rewards for the winner, 1st runner-up and 2nd runner-up of the marathon to \u20a650,000; \u20a630,000; and \u20a620,000 respectively, alongside the issuance of certificates of participation to all participants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br>The marathon runners are expected to pass through designated routes from the COLCOM&#8217;s car park to the Foursquare Camp Auditorium, and back to the starting point.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br>According to the University&#8217;s Sports Coordinator, Coach Olutayo Balogun, all is now set for this year&#8217;s marathon with lots of side attractions in the offing, including a presentation from Leksports.<br>Members of the University Community are encouraged to grace this annual fiesta .<br><br>E-signed:<br>Sanmi Enigbokan<br>Deputy&nbsp;Registrar,&nbsp;IPR<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The much-awaited annual marathon event of McPherson University, Seriki Sotayo, Ogun State is billed for Wednesday, June 26, 2024 at the Car Park of College of Computing by 8:00 a.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":23692,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-university"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcu.edu.ng\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcu.edu.ng\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcu.edu.ng\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcu.edu.ng\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcu.edu.ng\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3200"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mcu.edu.ng\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3200\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23693,"href":"https:\/\/mcu.edu.ng\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3200\/revisions\/23693"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcu.edu.ng\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcu.edu.ng\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcu.edu.ng\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcu.edu.ng\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}