{"id":192215,"date":"2025-02-25T15:09:01","date_gmt":"2025-02-25T13:09:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-no-nigerian-politician-mojisola-meranda-has-not-resigned-as-speaker-of-lagos-house-of-assembly\/"},"modified":"2025-02-25T15:09:01","modified_gmt":"2025-02-25T13:09:01","slug":"nigeria-no-nigerian-politician-mojisola-meranda-has-not-resigned-as-speaker-of-lagos-house-of-assembly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-no-nigerian-politician-mojisola-meranda-has-not-resigned-as-speaker-of-lagos-house-of-assembly\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: No, Nigerian Politician Mojisola Meranda Has Not Resigned As Speaker of Lagos House of Assembly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"16\"><em>No, Nigerian politician Mojisola Meranda has not resigned as speaker of Lagos house of assembly <\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\"><strong>IN SHORT: <\/strong>In January 2025, Mojisola Meranda became the first female speaker of the Lagos state house of assembly. Contrary to online claims, the Nigerian politician has not resigned from her position.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"35\">A Facebook <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/yekinni.jimoh.7\/posts\/pfbid0pEPw63XBkXTkGjmj9SQumpLxnhA3DCbP4X9XHP1tF83VnqDTVFVN9q943zvhngLul\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">post<\/a>, dated 19 February 2025, reads: &#8220;Breaking: Lagos Speaker, Mojisola Meranda resigns. If Obasa should be reinstated as speaker, that mean APC is not a political party in Lagos state but a&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202502250317.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>No, Nigerian politician Mojisola Meranda has not resigned as speaker of Lagos house of assembly IN SHORT: In January 2025, Mojisola Meranda became the first female speaker of the Lagos state house of assembly. Contrary to online claims, the Nigerian politician has not resigned from her position. A Facebook post, dated 19 February 2025, reads: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":192216,"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":[258,256,7269,5110,2477,50717,50716,257,4687,393,482,8314,7754,254,9632],"class_list":["post-192215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-assembly","tag-house","tag-lagos","tag-meranda","tag-mojisola","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-nigerian","tag-politician","tag-resigned","tag-south-africa-today","tag-speaker"],"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\/192215","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=192215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192215\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/192216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}