{"id":213955,"date":"2025-11-17T21:17:02","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T19:17:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/cameroon\/cameroon-how-nigeria-refused-to-hand-over-biyas-rival-to-cameroon-report\/"},"modified":"2025-11-17T21:17:02","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T19:17:02","slug":"cameroon-how-nigeria-refused-to-hand-over-biyas-rival-to-cameroon-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/cameroon\/cameroon-how-nigeria-refused-to-hand-over-biyas-rival-to-cameroon-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Cameroon: How Nigeria Refused to Hand Over Biya&#8217;s Rival to Cameroon &#8211; Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\"><em>Cameroonian opposition leader Issa Tchiroma Bakary is currently under the watch of Nigerian security operatives in Yola, Adamawa State capital, according to a BBC report.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"17\">This is as Nigeria declined a request from Cameroonian authorities to hand him over to the country.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"35\">Although a reliable source had told Daily Trust on Wednesday, November 5, that he had since moved to Abuja, the newspaper was unable to confirm if he was still in Abuja as of Wednesday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n  <span style=\"font-size: 110%;\"><br \/>\nKeep up with the latest headlines&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202511170048.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Cameroon\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/cameroon\/\">Cameroon<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cameroonian opposition leader Issa Tchiroma Bakary is currently under the watch of Nigerian security operatives in Yola, Adamawa State capital, according to a BBC report. This is as Nigeria declined a request from Cameroonian authorities to hand him over to the country. Although a reliable source had told Daily Trust on Wednesday, November 5, that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":213956,"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":[376],"tags":[258,256,16128,4698,377,11851,257,4687,24186,5144,8616,254],"class_list":["post-213955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cameroon","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-biyas","tag-cameroon","tag-cameroon-news","tag-hand","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-refused","tag-report","tag-rival","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\/213955","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=213955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213955\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/213956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}