{"id":194165,"date":"2025-03-21T15:58:48","date_gmt":"2025-03-21T13:58:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigerian-military-downplays-soldiers-attacks-on-electricity-companies-faults-critical-editorial\/"},"modified":"2025-03-21T15:58:48","modified_gmt":"2025-03-21T13:58:48","slug":"nigerian-military-downplays-soldiers-attacks-on-electricity-companies-faults-critical-editorial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigerian-military-downplays-soldiers-attacks-on-electricity-companies-faults-critical-editorial\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigerian Military Downplays Soldiers&#8217; Attacks On Electricity Companies, Faults Critical Editorial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">Despite two separate attacks on electricity workers in Lagos State by military personnel in quick succession, the <em><a href=\"https:\/\/defence.gov.ng\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nigerian Defence Headquarters<\/a><\/em> (DHQ) has expressed commitment to upholding the rule of law.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">The DHQ&#8217;s statement followed reports that soldiers stormed the Eko Electricity Distribution Company (EKEDC) substation in Badagry, Lagos, assaulting and abducting two staff members over a power outage at their base.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">A similar incident was recorded at the Ikeja Electricity Distribution Company&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202503210338.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>Despite two separate attacks on electricity workers in Lagos State by military personnel in quick succession, the Nigerian Defence Headquarters (DHQ) has expressed commitment to upholding the rule of law. The DHQ&#8217;s statement followed reports that soldiers stormed the Eko Electricity Distribution Company (EKEDC) substation in Badagry, Lagos, assaulting and abducting two staff members over [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":194166,"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":[258,256,306,9704,7129,22289,23445,4895,17773,3318,257,393,482,4401,254],"class_list":["post-194165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-attacks","tag-companies","tag-critical","tag-downplays","tag-editorial","tag-electricity","tag-faults","tag-military","tag-news","tag-nigeria-news","tag-nigerian","tag-soldiers","tag-south-africa-today"],"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\/194165","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=194165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194165\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/194166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}