{"id":224134,"date":"2026-02-18T12:25:55","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T10:25:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-ramadan-akpabio-urges-muslims-to-pray-for-peace-practise-compassion\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T12:25:55","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T10:25:55","slug":"nigeria-ramadan-akpabio-urges-muslims-to-pray-for-peace-practise-compassion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-ramadan-akpabio-urges-muslims-to-pray-for-peace-practise-compassion\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: Ramadan &#8211; Akpabio Urges Muslims to Pray for Peace, Practise Compassion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">As the holy month of Ramadan begins, Senate President Godswill Akpabio, has called on Muslims to use the period to pray for peace in Nigeria and the world.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"39\">In a statement issued to journalists yesterday in Abuja, by his special adviser on Media and Publicity, Hon Eseme Eyiboh, Akpabio urged the faithful to embrace the spiritual significance of Ramadan by practising compassion, fostering understanding and promoting unity.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">&#8220;As the Muslim community prepares to observe the holy month of Ramadan, I&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202602180202.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 the holy month of Ramadan begins, Senate President Godswill Akpabio, has called on Muslims to use the period to pray for peace in Nigeria and the world. In a statement issued to journalists yesterday in Abuja, by his special adviser on Media and Publicity, Hon Eseme Eyiboh, Akpabio urged the faithful to embrace the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":224135,"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":[258,256,23255,6209,323,257,4687,393,6157,43709,9571,1907,254,6810],"class_list":["post-224134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-akpabio","tag-compassion","tag-muslims","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-peace","tag-practise","tag-pray","tag-ramadan","tag-south-africa-today","tag-urges"],"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\/224134","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=224134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224134\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/224135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}