{"id":214207,"date":"2025-11-20T01:56:00","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T23:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-kwara-seeks-additional-troop-deployment-after-church-attack\/"},"modified":"2025-11-20T01:56:00","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T23:56:00","slug":"nigeria-kwara-seeks-additional-troop-deployment-after-church-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-kwara-seeks-additional-troop-deployment-after-church-attack\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: Kwara Seeks Additional Troop Deployment After Church Attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">Ilorin \u2014 <em>Kwara State Governor, AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq, has called for an urgent security reinforcement in Eruku following Tuesday&#8217;s attack on the Christ Apostolic Church, Oke Isegun, where two worshippers were killed.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"12\">Residents claimed the church pastor and another worshipper were among the victims.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">The incident had gone viral on Facebook and many social media platforms after it emerged that the attack coincided with the live streaming of the church programme in preparation for a night vigil.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" style=\"text-align:...<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202511190537.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>Ilorin \u2014 Kwara State Governor, AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq, has called for an urgent security reinforcement in Eruku following Tuesday&#8217;s attack on the Christ Apostolic Church, Oke Isegun, where two worshippers were killed. Residents claimed the church pastor and another worshipper were among the victims. The incident had gone viral on Facebook and many social media platforms [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":214208,"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":[7303,258,256,1398,6581,16062,12920,257,4687,393,8111,254,7806],"class_list":["post-214207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-additional","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-attack","tag-church","tag-deployment","tag-kwara","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-seeks","tag-south-africa-today","tag-troop"],"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\/214207","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=214207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214207\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/214208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}