{"id":188081,"date":"2025-01-07T13:26:27","date_gmt":"2025-01-07T11:26:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-2024-year-shaped-by-tragedies-ambitious-projects-in-nigerias-south-west\/"},"modified":"2025-01-07T13:26:27","modified_gmt":"2025-01-07T11:26:27","slug":"nigeria-2024-year-shaped-by-tragedies-ambitious-projects-in-nigerias-south-west","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-2024-year-shaped-by-tragedies-ambitious-projects-in-nigerias-south-west\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: 2024 &#8211; Year Shaped By Tragedies, Ambitious Projects in Nigeria&#8217;s South-West"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">The south-west region of Nigeria experienced a series of notable events over the past year that sparked national reflection on a wide range of issues.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">From the tragic incidents in Oyo State to the off-cycle election in Ondo State, the South-west region recorded a potpourri of events, some good and some bad, in 2024.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"36\">In this report, PREMIUM TIMES recalls some of the events. This report also provides insights into the ripple effects of some of them that may continue in at least the early part of the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202501070192.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>The south-west region of Nigeria experienced a series of notable events over the past year that sparked national reflection on a wide range of issues. From the tragic incidents in Oyo State to the off-cycle election in Ondo State, the South-west region recorded a potpourri of events, some good and some bad, in 2024. In [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":188082,"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":[258,256,24987,257,4687,393,5761,6039,12668,254,12406,24283,6537],"class_list":["post-188081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-ambitious","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-nigerias","tag-projects","tag-shaped","tag-south-africa-today","tag-southwest","tag-tragedies","tag-year"],"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\/188081","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=188081"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188081\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}