{"id":179243,"date":"2024-08-25T22:32:11","date_gmt":"2024-08-25T20:32:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-protesters-besiege-jigawa-govt-house-demand-sacking-of-commissioner\/"},"modified":"2024-08-25T22:32:11","modified_gmt":"2024-08-25T20:32:11","slug":"nigeria-protesters-besiege-jigawa-govt-house-demand-sacking-of-commissioner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-protesters-besiege-jigawa-govt-house-demand-sacking-of-commissioner\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: Protesters Besiege Jigawa Govt House, Demand Sacking of Commissioner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">Protesters from Ringim Local Government Area of Jigawa State on Thursday marched to the Government House in Dutse to demand the sacking of the state&#8217;s <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.premiumtimesng.com\/news\/more-news\/711075-agriculture-two-scientists-celebrated-at-2024-africa-awards.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">agriculture<\/a><\/strong> commissioner, Muttaka Namadi.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">Mr Namadi is from Ringim LGA. However, the protesters alleged that he has not represented the area well in the state executive council.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">They blocked the main entrance of the Government House chanting abusive slogans in expressing their disappointment with his performance and demanding his removal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"36\">One of the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202408230379.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>Protesters from Ringim Local Government Area of Jigawa State on Thursday marched to the Government House in Dutse to demand the sacking of the state&#8217;s agriculture commissioner, Muttaka Namadi. Mr Namadi is from Ringim LGA. However, the protesters alleged that he has not represented the area well in the state executive council. They blocked the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":179244,"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":[258,256,29334,6350,7617,4357,5110,24743,257,4687,393,4397,22738,254],"class_list":["post-179243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-besiege","tag-commissioner","tag-demand","tag-govt","tag-house","tag-jigawa","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-protesters","tag-sacking","tag-south-africa-today"],"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\/179243","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=179243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179243\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/179244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}