{"id":82525,"date":"2026-02-07T19:39:21","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T19:39:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=82525"},"modified":"2026-02-07T19:39:21","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T19:39:21","slug":"shettima-visits-kwara-assures-woro-community-of-federal-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2026\/02\/07\/shettima-visits-kwara-assures-woro-community-of-federal-support\/","title":{"rendered":"Shettima Visits Kwara, Assures Woro Community of Federal Support"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Onyeanya Ebere Immaculata<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Vice-President Kashim Shettima on Saturday conveyed President Bola Tinubu\u2019s condolences to the government and people of Kwara State over the Feb. 3 killings in Woro community, Kaiama Local Government Area.<\/p>\n<p>During a condolence visit, Shettima described the attack as tragic, noting that the victims were peaceful residents engaged in legitimate livelihoods.<\/p>\n<p>He said the Federal Government was taking steps to restore calm and prevent a recurrence.<\/p>\n<p>The Vice-President disclosed that a Nigerian Army battalion had been deployed to the area to strengthen security.<\/p>\n<p>He also said Tinubu directed the Director-General of the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), to work with the Kwara State Emergency Management Agency to deliver relief materials to affected families.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur prayers are with you, and our empathy is with the affected families and communities,\u201d Shettima said.<\/p>\n<p>He added that the affected communities were known for peaceful and tolerant religious traditions, stressing that the violence was alien to their culture.<\/p>\n<p>In his response, Governor Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq thanked the President and Vice-President for what he described as a swift federal intervention.<\/p>\n<p>He said security reinforcements had been deployed, while NEMA officials were already on ground to assess humanitarian needs.<\/p>\n<p>The governor urged Nigerians to continue supporting national efforts to tackle insecurity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Onyeanya Ebere Immaculata Vice-President Kashim Shettima on Saturday conveyed President Bola Tinubu\u2019s condolences to the government and people of Kwara State over the Feb. 3 killings in Woro community, Kaiama Local Government Area. During a condolence visit, Shettima described the attack as tragic, noting that the victims were peaceful residents engaged in legitimate livelihoods. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":82526,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1724,172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-insecurity","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82525","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=82525"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82525\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82527,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82525\/revisions\/82527"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}