{"id":78968,"date":"2025-11-19T12:47:01","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T12:47:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=78968"},"modified":"2025-11-19T12:53:06","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T12:53:06","slug":"tinubu-suspends-sa-angola-trips-after-kebbi-kidnap-kwara-church-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/11\/19\/tinubu-suspends-sa-angola-trips-after-kebbi-kidnap-kwara-church-attack\/","title":{"rendered":"Tinubu Suspends SA, Angola Trips After Kebbi Kidnap, Kwara Church Attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Samuel Adeola<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>President Bola Tinubu has suspended his planned trips to Johannesburg and Luanda as he awaits fresh security briefings on the abduction of Kebbi schoolgirls and Monday\u2019s bandit attack on Christ Apostolic Church in Eruku, Kwara State.<\/p>\n<p>Following a request from the Kwara State Governor, Tinubu ordered the deployment of additional security personnel to Eruku and the wider Ekiti Local Government Area.<\/p>\n<p>He also directed the police to pursue the attackers.<\/p>\n<p>Tinubu was expected to depart Abuja today for the G20 Summit in South Africa and later the AU-EU Summit in Angola, but the security crises forced a suspension.<\/p>\n<p>Presidential spokesman Bayo Onanuga said Tinubu is expecting reports from Vice President Kashim Shettima, who visited Kebbi, as well as updates from the police and DSS on the Kwara incident.<\/p>\n<p>The President reaffirmed his directive to security agencies to rescue the 24 abducted schoolgirls.<\/p>\n<p>He also expressed sorrow over the killing of military personnel, praying for the families of Brigadier General Musa Uba and other slain officers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Samuel Adeola President Bola Tinubu has suspended his planned trips to Johannesburg and Luanda as he awaits fresh security briefings on the abduction of Kebbi schoolgirls and Monday\u2019s bandit attack on Christ Apostolic Church in Eruku, Kwara State. Following a request from the Kwara State Governor, Tinubu ordered the deployment of additional security personnel [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":78969,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1724,172],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-78968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-insecurity","category-news","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78968","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=78968"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78968\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78970,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78968\/revisions\/78970"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}