{"id":208356,"date":"2025-09-27T11:49:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-27T09:49:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-peace-day-ex-envoy-calls-for-global-action-against-violence-racism-genocide\/"},"modified":"2025-09-27T11:49:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-27T09:49:06","slug":"nigeria-peace-day-ex-envoy-calls-for-global-action-against-violence-racism-genocide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-peace-day-ex-envoy-calls-for-global-action-against-violence-racism-genocide\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: Peace Day &#8211; Ex-Envoy Calls for Global Action Against Violence, Racism, Genocide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"43\">A former Nigerian Ambassador to Mozambique, Albert Omotayo, Thursday, attributed the persistence of wars and violence in some parts of the world to humanity&#8217;s deep-rooted struggle for survival and dominance, saying that this has evolved into competition, greed, alliances and clashes of interest.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"37\">Omotayo made this known at a lecture titled &#8216;God, Philosophy and World Peace&#8217; at the 2025 International Day of Peace with the theme, &#8216;Act Now For A Peaceful World&#8217;, organised by the African School of&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202509260404.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>A former Nigerian Ambassador to Mozambique, Albert Omotayo, Thursday, attributed the persistence of wars and violence in some parts of the world to humanity&#8217;s deep-rooted struggle for survival and dominance, saying that this has evolved into competition, greed, alliances and clashes of interest. Omotayo made this known at a lecture titled &#8216;God, Philosophy and World [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":208357,"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":[6394,258,256,6137,7165,52432,318,6212,257,4687,393,6157,6291,254,2148],"class_list":["post-208356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-action","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-calls","tag-day","tag-exenvoy","tag-genocide","tag-global","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-peace","tag-racism","tag-south-africa-today","tag-violence"],"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\/208356","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=208356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208356\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/208357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}