{"id":194655,"date":"2025-03-27T05:00:50","date_gmt":"2025-03-27T03:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-soyinka-condemns-emergency-rule-in-rivers\/"},"modified":"2025-03-27T05:00:50","modified_gmt":"2025-03-27T03:00:50","slug":"nigeria-soyinka-condemns-emergency-rule-in-rivers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-soyinka-condemns-emergency-rule-in-rivers\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: Soyinka Condemns Emergency Rule in Rivers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\">Nobel Laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka, has raised strong objections to President Bola Tinubu&#8217;s recent declaration of a state of emergency in Rivers State, describing the move as an overreach that undermines Nigeria&#8217;s federal system.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"44\">In an interview on Channels Television on Sunday, Soyinka stressed the urgency for immediate legal and political action from the National Assembly, the Senate, and politicians directly impacted&#8211;particularly those in the real estate sector, which appears to be at the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202503260549.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>Nobel Laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka, has raised strong objections to President Bola Tinubu&#8217;s recent declaration of a state of emergency in Rivers State, describing the move as an overreach that undermines Nigeria&#8217;s federal system. In an interview on Channels Television on Sunday, Soyinka stressed the urgency for immediate legal and political action from the National [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":194656,"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":[258,256,7610,6990,257,4687,393,7865,7858,254,8336],"class_list":["post-194655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-condemns","tag-emergency","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-rivers","tag-rule","tag-south-africa-today","tag-soyinka"],"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\/194655","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=194655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194655\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/194656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}