{"id":44544,"date":"2024-07-30T18:00:11","date_gmt":"2024-07-30T18:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/hardship-protest-auto-crash-claims-3-cross-river-varsity-students\/"},"modified":"2024-07-30T18:00:11","modified_gmt":"2024-07-30T18:00:11","slug":"hardship-protest-auto-crash-claims-3-cross-river-varsity-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/hardship-protest-auto-crash-claims-3-cross-river-varsity-students\/","title":{"rendered":"Hardship Protest: Auto crash claims 3 Cross River varsity students"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Three students of Cross River State University have died in an auto crash while travelling to their homes following a two-week closure of the institution to stop students from taking part in the hardship protest slated for August 1.<\/p>\n<p>The students who boarded a bus, were on their way to Ogoja in the northern part of the state when the accident occurred on Tuesday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>It was gathered that the accident occurred near Ikom in the central part of the state, along the Calabar\u2013Ikom highway.<\/p>\n<p>An eyewitness, simply identified as Ndoma Akunobor, who was an occupant of the bus, said the three students who lost their lives were from the departments of Microbiology, Plants Science and Biotechnology.<\/p>\n<p>The names of the students have not been ascertained at the time of filing this report.<\/p>\n<p>The management of the university, in a circular, had ordered the closure of the institution for two weeks beginning from 30th July to 12th August, ahead of the nationwide protest slated to commence on 1st August.<\/p>\n<p>Hardship Protest: Auto crash claims 3 Cross River varsity students<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three students of Cross River State University have died in an auto crash while travelling to their homes following a&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":44545,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6577,2812,384,15],"tags":[2837,1654,1885,5366,2821,903,387,180,600,2820,123,2099],"class_list":["post-44544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-accident","category-cross-river","category-metro","category-news","tag-accident","tag-auto","tag-claims","tag-crash","tag-cross","tag-hardship","tag-metro","tag-news","tag-protest","tag-river","tag-students","tag-varsity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44544","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=44544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44544\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}