{"id":193745,"date":"2025-03-17T03:49:49","date_gmt":"2025-03-17T01:49:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-pandef-accuses-wike-of-blocking-peace-efforts-in-rivers-crisis\/"},"modified":"2025-03-17T03:49:49","modified_gmt":"2025-03-17T01:49:49","slug":"nigeria-pandef-accuses-wike-of-blocking-peace-efforts-in-rivers-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-pandef-accuses-wike-of-blocking-peace-efforts-in-rivers-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: PANDEF Accuses Wike of Blocking Peace Efforts in Rivers Crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"46\">The apex socio-political body of the South-South geopolitical zone, Pan Niger Delta Forum (PANDEF), has raised the alarm that the minister of the Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA), Nyesom Wike, is using all available means to block peace efforts to address the crisis rocking Rivers State.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">PANDEF has urged President Bola Tinubu to intervene and ensure Wike comes to the negotiation table before the situation in Rivers State spirals further out of control.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"57\">Addressing journalists on&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202503140403.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 apex socio-political body of the South-South geopolitical zone, Pan Niger Delta Forum (PANDEF), has raised the alarm that the minister of the Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA), Nyesom Wike, is using all available means to block peace efforts to address the crisis rocking Rivers State. PANDEF has urged President Bola Tinubu to intervene and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":193746,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[5070,258,256,13466,3723,6357,257,4687,393,49215,6157,7865,254,8730],"class_list":["post-193745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-accuses","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-blocking","tag-crisis","tag-efforts","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-pandef","tag-peace","tag-rivers","tag-south-africa-today","tag-wike"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.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\/193745","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=193745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193745\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}