{"id":196498,"date":"2025-04-21T18:00:51","date_gmt":"2025-04-21T16:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-bishop-kukah-writes-tinubu-decries-insecurity-violence-across-nigeria\/"},"modified":"2025-04-21T18:00:51","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T16:00:51","slug":"nigeria-bishop-kukah-writes-tinubu-decries-insecurity-violence-across-nigeria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-bishop-kukah-writes-tinubu-decries-insecurity-violence-across-nigeria\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: Bishop Kukah Writes Tinubu, Decries Insecurity, Violence Across Nigeria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"20\">&#8220;Across the entire country, every day, innocent citizens are kidnapped and held under the most inhuman conditions,&#8221; Mr Kukah wrote.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">The Bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Sokoto, Matthew Kukah, has called on <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/officialABAT\">President Bola<\/a><\/strong> Tinubu to end the cycle of violence threatening peace and stability in Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"19\">Mr Kukah expressed his frustrations in an Easter statement addressed to the president and made available to PREMIUM TIMES.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"19\">Symbolising the present situation of Nigerians with the holy Cross, Mr Kukah&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202504210365.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>&#8220;Across the entire country, every day, innocent citizens are kidnapped and held under the most inhuman conditions,&#8221; Mr Kukah wrote. The Bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Sokoto, Matthew Kukah, has called on President Bola Tinubu to end the cycle of violence threatening peace and stability in Nigeria. Mr Kukah expressed his frustrations in an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":196499,"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":[258,256,8125,10717,2134,26375,257,4687,393,254,8308,2148,9043],"class_list":["post-196498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-bishop","tag-decries","tag-insecurity","tag-kukah","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-tinubu","tag-violence","tag-writes"],"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\/196498","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=196498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196498\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/196499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}