{"id":178321,"date":"2024-08-11T09:55:10","date_gmt":"2024-08-11T07:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-protests-why-tinubu-is-targeted\/"},"modified":"2024-08-11T09:55:10","modified_gmt":"2024-08-11T07:55:10","slug":"nigeria-protests-why-tinubu-is-targeted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-protests-why-tinubu-is-targeted\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: Protests &#8211; Why Tinubu Is Targeted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"16\">The primary theme of the August 2024 protests is #EndBadGovernment. Other sub-themes are #EndHunger and #EndHardship.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"75\">Bad governance, hunger and hardship were already ravaging the land before President Bola Tinubu assumed the mantle of leadership on May 29, 2023. But for most Nigerians, the situation was still largely bearable. Petrol, the primary energy resource of the masses, sold for between N180 and N200 per litre because imported petrol was still being subsidised. A year after Tinubu came to&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202408090606.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Nigeria\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/nigeria\/\">Nigeria<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The primary theme of the August 2024 protests is #EndBadGovernment. Other sub-themes are #EndHunger and #EndHardship. Bad governance, hunger and hardship were already ravaging the land before President Bola Tinubu assumed the mantle of leadership on May 29, 2023. But for most Nigerians, the situation was still largely bearable. Petrol, the primary energy resource of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":178322,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[258,256,257,4687,393,5253,254,16083,8308],"class_list":["post-178321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-protests","tag-south-africa-today","tag-targeted","tag-tinubu"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178321\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/178322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}