{"id":185641,"date":"2024-12-01T00:01:13","date_gmt":"2024-11-30T22:01:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigerian-army-confirms-arresting-detaining-investigative-journalist-soyombo-nigerians-react\/"},"modified":"2024-12-01T00:01:13","modified_gmt":"2024-11-30T22:01:13","slug":"nigerian-army-confirms-arresting-detaining-investigative-journalist-soyombo-nigerians-react","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigerian-army-confirms-arresting-detaining-investigative-journalist-soyombo-nigerians-react\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigerian Army Confirms Arresting, Detaining Investigative Journalist Soyombo, Nigerians React"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\">FIJ, a platform founded by Mr Soyombo, said he had been detained by the Nigerian Army in Port Harcourt for three days.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"12\">The Nigerian Army has confirmed arresting and detaining investigative journalist Fisayo Soyombo.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\">The Army said in a statement on Friday that Mr Soyombo, the founder of Foundation for Investigative Journalism (FIJ), was arrested on &#8220;an illegal oil bunkering site&#8221; in Port Harcourt, Rivers State.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"43\">&#8220;Only recently, intelligence revealed the existence of a notorious gang of oil thieves&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202411290528.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>FIJ, a platform founded by Mr Soyombo, said he had been detained by the Nigerian Army in Port Harcourt for three days. The Nigerian Army has confirmed arresting and detaining investigative journalist Fisayo Soyombo. The Army said in a statement on Friday that Mr Soyombo, the founder of Foundation for Investigative Journalism (FIJ), was arrested [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":185642,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn04.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00541273:7858b0d28d49ff30f2e92ec80a66511d:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[258,256,4361,7736,6824,17188,6954,7277,257,393,482,6665,12884,254,50082],"class_list":["post-185641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-army","tag-arresting","tag-confirms","tag-detaining","tag-investigative","tag-journalist","tag-news","tag-nigeria-news","tag-nigerian","tag-nigerians","tag-react","tag-south-africa-today","tag-soyombo"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn04.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00541273:7858b0d28d49ff30f2e92ec80a66511d:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185641","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=185641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185641\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/185642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}