{"id":59454,"date":"2020-01-23T10:39:59","date_gmt":"2020-01-23T02:39:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=59454"},"modified":"2020-01-23T10:40:01","modified_gmt":"2020-01-23T02:40:01","slug":"boko-haram-beheads-christian-leader-in-nigeria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=59454","title":{"rendered":"Boko Haram beheads Christian leader in Nigeria"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanaweb.com\/GhanaHomePage\/africa\/Boko-Haram-beheads-Christian-leader-in-Nigeria-844570?gallery=1\"><img src=\"https:\/\/cdn.ghanaweb.com\/imagelib\/pics\/312\/31224936.295.jpg\" alt=\"File photo\"\/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>ABUJA, Jan 23 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; President Muhammadu Buhari has condemned the killing of a Christian leader in northern Nigeria.<br><br>Reverend Lawan Andimi was abducted by gunmen believed to be Islamist militants in early January.<br><br>In a statement, the Nigerian president described the killing of Reverend Andimi as deliberately provocative.<br><br>He also revealed that the kidnappers had shown signs they might free the victim, by releasing him to third parties.<br><br>It\u2019s unclear who these parties were.<br><br>The rights group Amnesty International also condemned the act, calling on authorities to do more to rescue those abducted by Boko Haram.<br><br>The killing of Reverend Andimi is the latest attack by Islamist militants in the region targeting Christians.<br><br>In December, jihadists aligned to the Daesh group released a video claiming to show the execution of 11 Christians in north-east Nigeria.<br><br>Local media reports said the reverend belong to the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN). He was a local leader of CAN in the Michika Local Government Area in northeastern Adamawa State.<br><br>The reverend was abducted early this year when the insurgents stormed Michika, they were repelled by the military but made away with the reverend as they fled. &#8212; NNN-AGENCIES<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ABUJA, Jan 23 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; President Muhammadu Buhari has condemned the killing of a Christian leader in northern Nigeria. Reverend Lawan Andimi was abducted by gunmen believed to be Islamist militants in early January. In a statement, the Nigerian president described the killing of Reverend Andimi as deliberately provocative. He also revealed that the kidnappers [&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\/59454"}],"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=59454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59454\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}