{"id":186102,"date":"2024-12-08T00:17:38","date_gmt":"2024-12-07T22:17:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-curbing-the-influence-of-non-state-actors\/"},"modified":"2024-12-08T00:17:38","modified_gmt":"2024-12-07T22:17:38","slug":"nigeria-curbing-the-influence-of-non-state-actors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-curbing-the-influence-of-non-state-actors\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: Curbing the Influence of Non-State Actors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"20\">Many cheered when the self-acclaimed prime minister of Biafra and provocateur terrible, <a href=\"https:\/\/leadership.ng\/finnish-court-sets-may-2025-deadline-for-simon-ekpas-terorrism-trial\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Simon Ekpa<\/a>, was eventually arrested in faraway Finland.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"46\">After repeated calls for his arrest for inciting hatred and killings in the South East, the Finnish authorities arrested him and began prosecuting him for promoting terrorist acts. Before his arrest and ongoing prosecution, his hateful pronouncements caused a lot of damage in the South East.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"47\">Clearly, Ekpa and others like him are symptomatic of a leadership&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202412060660.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>Many cheered when the self-acclaimed prime minister of Biafra and provocateur terrible, Simon Ekpa, was eventually arrested in faraway Finland. After repeated calls for his arrest for inciting hatred and killings in the South East, the Finnish authorities arrested him and began prosecuting him for promoting terrorist acts. Before his arrest and ongoing prosecution, his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":186103,"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":[11890,258,256,13594,10816,257,4687,393,32098,254],"class_list":["post-186102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-actors","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-curbing","tag-influence","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-nonstate","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\/186102","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=186102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186102\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/186103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}