{"id":60482,"date":"2025-02-04T12:31:07","date_gmt":"2025-02-04T12:31:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=60482"},"modified":"2025-02-04T12:31:07","modified_gmt":"2025-02-04T12:31:07","slug":"bassa-indigenes-to-return-home-after-seven-years-of-displacement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/02\/04\/bassa-indigenes-to-return-home-after-seven-years-of-displacement\/","title":{"rendered":"Bassa indigenes to Return Home After Seven Years of Displacement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Abaire Bisola<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>More than 200,000 Bassa indigenes in Toto Local Government Area of Nasarawa State will return to their ancestral homes on February 10, 2025, after seven years of displacement.<\/p>\n<p>The decision follows peace efforts led by the state government and security agencies to resolve tensions with the Egbura ethnic group.<\/p>\n<p>The Bassa people were displaced on April 22, 2018, following a communal clash with the Egbura.<\/p>\n<p>Joshua Gomina, acting chairman of the Bassa Youth for Peace Coalition Forum, confirmed the development on Monday, expressing gratitude to the state government, security forces, and local authorities for facilitating the peace process.<\/p>\n<p>Their return marks a significant milestone in efforts to restore stability and address the hardship caused by the prolonged conflict.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Abaire Bisola More than 200,000 Bassa indigenes in Toto Local Government Area of Nasarawa State will return to their ancestral homes on February 10, 2025, after seven years of displacement. The decision follows peace efforts led by the state government and security agencies to resolve tensions with the Egbura ethnic group. The Bassa people [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":60483,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-60482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60482"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60482\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60484,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60482\/revisions\/60484"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}