{"id":59929,"date":"2020-01-27T16:30:00","date_gmt":"2020-01-27T08:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=59929"},"modified":"2020-01-27T16:30:01","modified_gmt":"2020-01-27T08:30:01","slug":"nigeria-pres-buhari-orders-air-strikes-against-bandits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=59929","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: Pres Buhari orders air strikes against bandits"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanaweb.com\/GhanaHomePage\/africa\/Buhari-orders-air-strikes-against-bandits-849052?gallery=1\"><img src=\"https:\/\/cdn.ghanaweb.com\/imagelib\/pics\/157\/15727406.295.jpg\" alt=\"Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari\"\/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><strong><em>President Muhammadu Buhari<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>ABUJA, Jan 27 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; Nigeria&#8217;s President Muhammadu Buhari has ordered air strikes against bandits, kidnappers and cattle rustlers in Niger state.<br><br>On Saturday gunmen killed 11 people and kidnapped four women during door-to-door attacks, reported Sahara Reporters and The Daily Sun.<br><br>Buhari described the repeated attacks by the bandits &#8220;as a disaster&#8221;.<br><br>Buhari said the air raids &#8220;remain the best approach given the lack of motorised roads in the areas constantly under attack&#8221;.<br><br>The air strikes will support troops already deployed on the ground.<br><br>The Nigerian air force is already setting up refuelling facilities at Minna, the state&#8217;s capital, to support the operations.<br><br>Earlier this month gunmen killed six people, injured five and kidnapped others in the neighbouring Kaduna state. &#8212; NNN-AGENCIES<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Muhammadu Buhari ABUJA, Jan 27 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; Nigeria&#8217;s President Muhammadu Buhari has ordered air strikes against bandits, kidnappers and cattle rustlers in Niger state. On Saturday gunmen killed 11 people and kidnapped four women during door-to-door attacks, reported Sahara Reporters and The Daily Sun. Buhari described the repeated attacks by the bandits &#8220;as a [&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\/59929"}],"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=59929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59929\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}