{"id":28280,"date":"2024-04-21T16:04:52","date_gmt":"2024-04-21T16:04:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/niger-insecurity-killing-of-six-military-personnel-atrocious-provocative-gov-bago\/"},"modified":"2024-04-21T16:04:52","modified_gmt":"2024-04-21T16:04:52","slug":"niger-insecurity-killing-of-six-military-personnel-atrocious-provocative-gov-bago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/niger-insecurity-killing-of-six-military-personnel-atrocious-provocative-gov-bago\/","title":{"rendered":"Niger insecurity: Killing of six military personnel atrocious, provocative \u2013 Gov Bago"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Niger State Governor, Mohammed Umaru Bago, has sympathised with the Nigerian Army over the killing of a captain and five soldiers in an ambush by bandits.<\/p>\n<p>He described the incident as atrocious, provocative and unacceptable.<\/p>\n<p>The governor stated this in a statement signed by his Chief Press Secretary, Bologi Ibrahim, and made available to journalists in Minna on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Expressing his deepest sympathy with the security agencies, he noted, \u201cThey are daily making sacrifices to ensure the safety of citizens, with most of them paying the supreme price.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bago assured the Nigerian Army and every other conventional and non-conventional security agency that his administration will not rest on its oars in providing all the needed support towards halting the nefarious activities of bandits.<\/p>\n<p>He also then commiserated with the families of the slain officer and men, as well as a vigilante, promising that their deaths would not be a waste.<\/p>\n<p>DAILY POST recalls that bandits on Friday waylaid and killed some security personnel, comprising a captain, soldiers, and a vigilante, while on their way to respond to a distress call around Bassa and Alawa communities in Shiroro Local Government Area of Niger State.<\/p>\n<p>Niger insecurity: Killing of six military personnel atrocious, provocative \u2013 Gov Bago<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Niger State Governor, Mohammed Umaru Bago, has sympathised with the Nigerian Army over the killing of a captain and five&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28281,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4691,15,14255],"tags":[4463,1552,180,1283],"class_list":["post-28280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bago","category-news","category-niger-insecurity","tag-bago","tag-insecurity","tag-news","tag-niger"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28280\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}