{"id":197888,"date":"2025-05-11T18:41:52","date_gmt":"2025-05-11T16:41:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-tinubus-hitch-free-visit-confirms-anambra-is-now-safe-police\/"},"modified":"2025-05-11T18:41:52","modified_gmt":"2025-05-11T16:41:52","slug":"nigeria-tinubus-hitch-free-visit-confirms-anambra-is-now-safe-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-tinubus-hitch-free-visit-confirms-anambra-is-now-safe-police\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: Tinubu&#8217;s &#8216;Hitch-Free&#8217; Visit Confirms Anambra Is Now Safe &#8211; Police"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\"><em>Like other states in Nigeria&#8217;s South-east, security has deteriorated in Anambra State in recent times with frequent attacks by armed persons.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">The Commissioner of Police in <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/anambrastate.gov.ng\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Anambra State<\/a><\/strong>, Ikioye Orutugu, says President Bola Tinubu&#8217;s hitch-free visit to Anambra State has confirmed that the South-eastern state is now safe.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\">Mr Orutugu spoke on Thursday evening while commending security operatives for ensuring improved security during the presidential visit to Anambra State.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">Details of the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202505090341.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>Like other states in Nigeria&#8217;s South-east, security has deteriorated in Anambra State in recent times with frequent attacks by armed persons. The Commissioner of Police in Anambra State, Ikioye Orutugu, says President Bola Tinubu&#8217;s hitch-free visit to Anambra State has confirmed that the South-eastern state is now safe. Mr Orutugu spoke on Thursday evening while [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":197889,"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":[258,256,12904,6824,12350,257,4687,393,662,6803,254,34574,6250],"class_list":["post-197888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-anambra","tag-confirms","tag-hitchfree","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-police","tag-safe","tag-south-africa-today","tag-tinubus","tag-visit"],"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\/197888","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=197888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197888\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/197889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}