{"id":58501,"date":"2024-11-12T09:05:51","date_gmt":"2024-11-12T09:05:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/nigerian-troops-in-gun-battle-with-turji-bello-led-bandits-in-sokoto\/"},"modified":"2024-11-12T09:05:51","modified_gmt":"2024-11-12T09:05:51","slug":"nigerian-troops-in-gun-battle-with-turji-bello-led-bandits-in-sokoto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/nigerian-troops-in-gun-battle-with-turji-bello-led-bandits-in-sokoto\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigerian troops in gun battle with Turji Bello-led bandits in Sokoto"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Troops of the Nigerian Army on Tuesday morning engaged in a fierce battle with bandits led by Turji Bello.<\/p>\n<p>The heavy gun duel took place near Bakin Gulbi, close to Tungar Yakuba in Sokoto State.<\/p>\n<p>Disclosing this, counter-terrorism publication focused on the Lake Chad area, Zagazola Makama, said the duel also involved residents of Gatawa.<\/p>\n<p>Makama said: \u201cIntense fighting has erupted early this morning, starting around 6:00 a.m., as residents of Gatawa and Nigerian soldiers engaged in a fierce battle with notorious bandit leader Bello Turji and his fighters.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFurther updates on the situation are expected as both sides continue their fight.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPrior to the attack, Bello Turji held a clandestine meeting in the village of Dan Tasakko, near Gatawa, shortly after sunset yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLocal sources say the meeting involved key figures from his network, raising alarms about potential security threats in the area.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Nigerian troops in gun battle with Turji Bello-led bandits in Sokoto<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Troops of the Nigerian Army on Tuesday morning engaged in a fierce battle with bandits led by Turji Bello. The&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":58502,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5131,15,5848,3966,1314,24581],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bandits","category-news","category-nigerian","category-sokoto","category-troops","category-turji-bello"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58501","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=58501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58501\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}