{"id":215493,"date":"2025-12-02T14:21:54","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T12:21:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-weekend-of-horror-terrorists-use-drones-arms-to-monitor-kidnap-kill-in-four-nigerian-states\/"},"modified":"2025-12-02T14:21:54","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T12:21:54","slug":"nigeria-weekend-of-horror-terrorists-use-drones-arms-to-monitor-kidnap-kill-in-four-nigerian-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-weekend-of-horror-terrorists-use-drones-arms-to-monitor-kidnap-kill-in-four-nigerian-states\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: Weekend of Horror &#8211; Terrorists Use Drones, Arms to Monitor, Kidnap, Kill in Four Nigerian States"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"13\">As bandits deploy a drone in Kogi, attacks continue in many northern states.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"58\">The faint mechanical buzz that drifted across Ejiba, a community in Yagba West Area of Kogi State, sometime between 8 and 9 a.m. on Sunday, was unusual enough to make residents look up. In this agrarian settlement, morning sounds usually come from grinding cassava mills or the call to prayer &#8212; not the high-pitched hum of aerospace technology.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"45\">At first, villagers assumed the device was harmless &#8212; perhaps a wedding&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202512020406.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>As bandits deploy a drone in Kogi, attacks continue in many northern states. The faint mechanical buzz that drifted across Ejiba, a community in Yagba West Area of Kogi State, sometime between 8 and 9 a.m. on Sunday, was unusual enough to make residents look up. In this agrarian settlement, morning sounds usually come from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":215494,"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":[258,256,7008,9292,10506,10277,4266,12386,257,4687,393,482,254,6484,1775,7608],"class_list":["post-215493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-arms","tag-drones","tag-horror","tag-kidnap","tag-kill","tag-monitor","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-nigerian","tag-south-africa-today","tag-states","tag-terrorists","tag-weekend"],"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\/215493","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=215493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215493\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/215494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}