{"id":200185,"date":"2025-06-15T07:56:07","date_gmt":"2025-06-15T05:56:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-planned-protest-by-retired-military-veterans-suspended\/"},"modified":"2025-06-15T07:56:07","modified_gmt":"2025-06-15T05:56:07","slug":"nigeria-planned-protest-by-retired-military-veterans-suspended","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-planned-protest-by-retired-military-veterans-suspended\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: Planned Protest By Retired Military Veterans Suspended"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"15\"><em>&#8230;As Military Pensions Board Commences Payment of January, February Arrears on Friday, June 13, 2025<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"47\">Amid ongoing mobilization by retired military personnel and veterans for a planned nationwide protest over unpaid pension arrears and other entitlements, the Military Pensions Board (MPB) has announced that payment of arrears for January and February 2025 will begin on Friday, June 13, 2025, across the country.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">Several associations of retired veterans had earlier mobilized members to protest in&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202506130185.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>&#8230;As Military Pensions Board Commences Payment of January, February Arrears on Friday, June 13, 2025 Amid ongoing mobilization by retired military personnel and veterans for a planned nationwide protest over unpaid pension arrears and other entitlements, the Military Pensions Board (MPB) has announced that payment of arrears for January and February 2025 will begin on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":200186,"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":[258,256,3318,257,4687,393,7665,2194,20247,254,4314,8016],"class_list":["post-200185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-military","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-planned","tag-protest","tag-retired","tag-south-africa-today","tag-suspended","tag-veterans"],"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\/200185","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=200185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200185\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/200186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}