{"id":180254,"date":"2024-09-09T23:13:07","date_gmt":"2024-09-09T21:13:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-security-operatives-arrest-nlc-president-ajaero-official\/"},"modified":"2024-09-09T23:13:07","modified_gmt":"2024-09-09T21:13:07","slug":"nigeria-security-operatives-arrest-nlc-president-ajaero-official","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-security-operatives-arrest-nlc-president-ajaero-official\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: Security Operatives Arrest NLC President Ajaero &#8211; Official"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">Mr Ajaero and the NLC have been having running battles with the federal government over what the union described as a clampdown on the civic space by security agencies.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"16\">The <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nlcng.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nigeria Labour Congress<\/a><\/strong> has announced the arrest of its President, Joe Ajaero, by security operatives.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"57\">The NLC, in a statement shared on its X handle, said Mr Ajaero was arrested by operatives of the State Security Service (SSS, also called DSS) &#8220;at the Nnamdi Azikiwe Airport <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.premiumtimesng.com\/news\/top-news\/732464-abuja-electricity-consumers-lament-arbitrary-migration-to-band-a-billing-power-supply-shortage.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Abuja<\/a><\/strong> this morning on his way to attend an Official&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202409090684.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>Mr Ajaero and the NLC have been having running battles with the federal government over what the union described as a clampdown on the civic space by security agencies. The Nigeria Labour Congress has announced the arrest of its President, Joe Ajaero, by security operatives. The NLC, in a statement shared on its X handle, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":180255,"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":[258,256,47133,6414,257,4687,393,8448,5092,29589,2450,4586,254],"class_list":["post-180254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-ajaero","tag-arrest","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-nlc","tag-official","tag-operatives","tag-president","tag-security","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\/180254","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=180254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180254\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/180255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}