{"id":74927,"date":"2025-09-04T16:42:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T16:42:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=74927"},"modified":"2025-09-04T16:42:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T16:42:12","slug":"ex-soldiers-resume-abuja-protest-over-unpaid-benefits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/09\/04\/ex-soldiers-resume-abuja-protest-over-unpaid-benefits\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Soldiers Resume Abuja Protest Over Unpaid Benefits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Huldah Shado<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Ex-servicemen on Thursday resumed protests at the Ministry of Finance in Abuja over unpaid entitlements.<\/p>\n<p>The group had earlier suspended demonstrations on August 4 after Defence and Finance officials promised to settle their benefits by August 10, a pledge yet to be fulfilled.<\/p>\n<p>Spokesperson \u201cMama G\u201d warned that the protest would intensify until payments are made. The Ministry of Defence and Military Pension Board have not responded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Huldah Shado &nbsp; Ex-servicemen on Thursday resumed protests at the Ministry of Finance in Abuja over unpaid entitlements. The group had earlier suspended demonstrations on August 4 after Defence and Finance officials promised to settle their benefits by August 10, a pledge yet to be fulfilled. Spokesperson \u201cMama G\u201d warned that the protest would [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":74928,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74927","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\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74927"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74927\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74929,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74927\/revisions\/74929"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}