{"id":203462,"date":"2025-07-28T21:25:51","date_gmt":"2025-07-28T19:25:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-mohammed-babangida-welcome-to-a-hot-seat\/"},"modified":"2025-07-28T21:25:51","modified_gmt":"2025-07-28T19:25:51","slug":"nigeria-mohammed-babangida-welcome-to-a-hot-seat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-mohammed-babangida-welcome-to-a-hot-seat\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: Mohammed Babangida, Welcome to a Hot Seat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"12\">I&#8217;m ready to serve, says Mohammed Babangida &#8211; Report, July 22, 2025<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"14\">High fertiliser cost: farmers dump rice, maize cultivation &#8211; Daily Trust, July 21, 2025<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"15\">Over 3.7 million people face food insecurity in North-east Nigeria &#8211; ICRC, July 22, 2025<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"54\">There was never a doubt in my mind that Mohammed Babangida would accept the appointment to be the Chairman of the Bank of Agriculture, BOA &#8211; despite the attempt by various individuals and groups in the social media to deceive the public and sow seeds of&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202507280539.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>I&#8217;m ready to serve, says Mohammed Babangida &#8211; Report, July 22, 2025 High fertiliser cost: farmers dump rice, maize cultivation &#8211; Daily Trust, July 21, 2025 Over 3.7 million people face food insecurity in North-east Nigeria &#8211; ICRC, July 22, 2025 There was never a doubt in my mind that Mohammed Babangida would accept the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":203463,"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":[258,256,51977,7478,7799,257,4687,393,8545,254],"class_list":["post-203462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-babangida","tag-hot","tag-mohammed","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-seat","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\/203462","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=203462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203462\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/203463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}