{"id":55436,"date":"2019-12-19T09:40:44","date_gmt":"2019-12-19T01:40:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=55436"},"modified":"2019-12-19T09:40:46","modified_gmt":"2019-12-19T01:40:46","slug":"nigerian-church-set-ablaze-over-missing-child","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=55436","title":{"rendered":"Nigerian church set ablaze over missing child"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanaweb.com\/GhanaHomePage\/world\/Nigerian-church-set-ablaze-over-missing-child-818962?gallery=1\"><img src=\"https:\/\/cdn.ghanaweb.com\/imagelib\/pics\/507\/50713964.295.jpg\" alt=\"The child allegedly went missing from the church last month (BBC)\"\/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><strong><em>The child allegedly went missing from the church last month<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>ABUJA, Dec 19 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; Protesters have set ablaze a church in Akure city, south-west Nigeria, following unconfirmed rumours that the body of a missing one-year-old child had been found buried by the altar.<br><br>Witnesses said two of the protesters were shot and wounded by police officers who tried to disperse the angry crowd.<br><br>Police said one of their officers was killed.<br><br>The child went missing last month while attending the church, known as the Sotitobire Miracle Church, with his mother.<br><br>The exact circumstances of the child&#8217;s disappearance are unclear, but his mother, Modupe Kolawole, said she suspected foul play.<br><br>Alfa Babatunde, who is the founder of the church, was arrested last week by Nigeria&#8217;s secret police in connection with the boy&#8217;s disappearance.<br><br>It has not yet been confirmed that the boy&#8217;s body has been found. &#8212; NNN-AGENCIES<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The child allegedly went missing from the church last month ABUJA, Dec 19 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; Protesters have set ablaze a church in Akure city, south-west Nigeria, following unconfirmed rumours that the body of a missing one-year-old child had been found buried by the altar. Witnesses said two of the protesters were shot and wounded by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[213],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55436"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55436\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}