{"id":35426,"date":"2024-06-03T13:04:32","date_gmt":"2024-06-03T13:04:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/benue-youths-block-road-as-suspected-herdsmen-injure-10-in-community\/"},"modified":"2024-06-03T13:04:32","modified_gmt":"2024-06-03T13:04:32","slug":"benue-youths-block-road-as-suspected-herdsmen-injure-10-in-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/benue-youths-block-road-as-suspected-herdsmen-injure-10-in-community\/","title":{"rendered":"Benue youths block road as suspected herdsmen injure 10 in community"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Youths, women and children of Antsa community in Makurdi Local Government Area of Benue State have blocked the UniAgric Makurdi-Gbajimba Road over attacks by suspected herdsmen.<\/p>\n<p>Ten persons from the Antsa community were reportedly injured following an attack by suspected herdsmen on Monday morning.<\/p>\n<p>Antsa community is located on North Bank \u2013 J.S Tarka University of Agriculture, Makurdi, busy road in Benue<\/p>\n<p>The protesters blocked the ever-busy road to seek the government\u2019s intervention.<\/p>\n<p>The road also provides access for those travelling to Gbajimba in Guma Local Government Area.<\/p>\n<p>As early as 7 am on Monday, youths mounted roadblocks on the busy University Community road, preventing vehicles and motorcycles from passing through.<\/p>\n<p>DAILY POST gathered that the youths vowed to remain on the road until the authorities addressed them on the security challenges.<\/p>\n<p>Benue youths block road as suspected herdsmen injure 10 in community<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Youths, women and children of Antsa community in Makurdi Local Government Area of Benue State have blocked the UniAgric Makurdi-Gbajimba&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35427,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4173,384,15],"tags":[1126,16326,1619,9770,3778,387,180,641,1758,844],"class_list":["post-35426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-benue","category-metro","category-news","tag-benue","tag-block","tag-community","tag-herdsmen","tag-injure","tag-metro","tag-news","tag-road","tag-suspected","tag-youths"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35426","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=35426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35426\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}