{"id":229576,"date":"2026-04-05T14:10:43","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T12:10:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-why-tinubu-didnt-leave-airport-during-jos-visit-presidency\/"},"modified":"2026-04-05T14:10:43","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T12:10:43","slug":"nigeria-why-tinubu-didnt-leave-airport-during-jos-visit-presidency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-why-tinubu-didnt-leave-airport-during-jos-visit-presidency\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: Why Tinubu Didn&#8217;t Leave Airport During Jos Visit &#8211; Presidency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\"><em>The Presidency has explained why President Bola Ahmed Tinubu remained at the airport during his visit to Jos, Plateau State, citing a mix of scheduling constraints and logistical challenges.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">Daily Trust had reported how the President met with families of those who were killed when gunmen struck in Angwa Rukuba, Jos North Local Government Area of Plateau State, on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"61\">Addressing the victims, who were conveyed to meet him at the airport, the President had said, &#8220;You have no light at the airport,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202604030518.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>The Presidency has explained why President Bola Ahmed Tinubu remained at the airport during his visit to Jos, Plateau State, citing a mix of scheduling constraints and logistical challenges. Daily Trust had reported how the President met with families of those who were killed when gunmen struck in Angwa Rukuba, Jos North Local Government Area [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":229577,"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":[258,256,2819,19218,24644,6775,257,4687,393,8404,254,8308,6250],"class_list":["post-229576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-airport","tag-didnt","tag-jos","tag-leave","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-presidency","tag-south-africa-today","tag-tinubu","tag-visit"],"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\/229576","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=229576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229576\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/229577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}