{"id":187145,"date":"2024-12-23T12:52:04","date_gmt":"2024-12-23T10:52:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigerians-beware-of-engagement-bait-posts-pushing-non-existent-government-christmas-grants\/"},"modified":"2024-12-23T12:52:04","modified_gmt":"2024-12-23T10:52:04","slug":"nigerians-beware-of-engagement-bait-posts-pushing-non-existent-government-christmas-grants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigerians-beware-of-engagement-bait-posts-pushing-non-existent-government-christmas-grants\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigerians, Beware of Engagement Bait Posts Pushing Non-Existent Government Christmas Grants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"11\"><em>Nigerians, beware of engagement bait posts pushing non-existent government Christmas grants<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\"><strong>IN SHORT:<\/strong> Facebook posts circulating claim the Nigerian government is offering Nigerians a N100,000 Christmas cash grant. But that&#8217;s not the case.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"19\">According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/share\/184JdY12Bw\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">some Facebook posts<\/a>, the Nigerian government is offering N100,000 (about US$65) in Christmas cash grants to Nigerians.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\">To access the grants, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/share\/184JdY12Bw\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">one post<\/a> published 8 December 2024 asks users to click a link and answer a few questions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"20\">Some social media&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202412230201.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>Nigerians, beware of engagement bait posts pushing non-existent government Christmas grants IN SHORT: Facebook posts circulating claim the Nigerian government is offering Nigerians a N100,000 Christmas cash grant. But that&#8217;s not the case. According to some Facebook posts, the Nigerian government is offering N100,000 (about US$65) in Christmas cash grants to Nigerians. To access the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":187146,"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":[258,256,50241,25546,4924,7365,6427,10875,257,393,6665,23022,7032,13528,254],"class_list":["post-187145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-bait","tag-beware","tag-christmas","tag-engagement","tag-government","tag-grants","tag-news","tag-nigeria-news","tag-nigerians","tag-nonexistent","tag-posts","tag-pushing","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\/187145","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=187145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187145\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/187146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}