{"id":193968,"date":"2025-03-19T18:58:50","date_gmt":"2025-03-19T16:58:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/cameroon\/nigeria-senate-constitutes-committee-to-probe-alleged-forceful-takeover-of-nigerian-mangrove-islands-by-cameroon\/"},"modified":"2025-03-19T18:58:50","modified_gmt":"2025-03-19T16:58:50","slug":"nigeria-senate-constitutes-committee-to-probe-alleged-forceful-takeover-of-nigerian-mangrove-islands-by-cameroon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/cameroon\/nigeria-senate-constitutes-committee-to-probe-alleged-forceful-takeover-of-nigerian-mangrove-islands-by-cameroon\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: Senate Constitutes Committee to Probe Alleged Forceful Takeover of Nigerian Mangrove Islands By Cameroon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"44\"><em>The Senate noted that the Cameroonian government encroached on Nigeria&#8217;s islands in Akwa Ibom despite that the affected islands were not part of the territories ceded to Cameroon under the 1913 Anglo-German treaties or the International Court of Justice (ICJ) ruling of October 2002.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"39\">The Senate, on Tuesday, constituted an eight-member ad hoc committee to investigate the allegations that the Republic of Cameroon has forcefully taken over Nigerian mangrove islands and maritime territories in Efiat,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202503190056.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Cameroon\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/cameroon\/\">Cameroon<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Senate noted that the Cameroonian government encroached on Nigeria&#8217;s islands in Akwa Ibom despite that the affected islands were not part of the territories ceded to Cameroon under the 1913 Anglo-German treaties or the International Court of Justice (ICJ) ruling of October 2002. The Senate, on Tuesday, constituted an eight-member ad hoc committee to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":193969,"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":[376],"tags":[258,256,4305,4698,377,5857,18157,11669,11805,26219,257,4687,482,5805,8115,254,15362],"class_list":["post-193968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cameroon","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-alleged","tag-cameroon","tag-cameroon-news","tag-committee","tag-constitutes","tag-forceful","tag-islands","tag-mangrove","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigerian","tag-probe","tag-senate","tag-south-africa-today","tag-takeover"],"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\/193968","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=193968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193968\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}