{"id":229838,"date":"2026-04-08T14:17:30","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T12:17:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-1402-nigerians-killed-abducted-by-terrorists-in-96-days\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T14:17:30","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T12:17:30","slug":"nigeria-1402-nigerians-killed-abducted-by-terrorists-in-96-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-1402-nigerians-killed-abducted-by-terrorists-in-96-days\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: &#8216;1,402 Nigerians Killed, Abducted By Terrorists in 96 Days&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"40\">International Society for Civil Liberties and Rule of Law, Intersociety, has said that terrorists operating in Nigeria have killed and abducted 1,402 Christians in 96 days, spanning from January 1, 2026, New Year&#8217;s Day, to Easter Monday, April 6, 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">The group, in its recent update on various attacks, said 450 people were killed between January and April 6, 2026, while 600 were abducted within the period under review.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"37\">The Chairman of Intersociety, Mr Emeka Umeagbalasi, in a statement, said that&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202604080396.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>International Society for Civil Liberties and Rule of Law, Intersociety, has said that terrorists operating in Nigeria have killed and abducted 1,402 Christians in 96 days, spanning from January 1, 2026, New Year&#8217;s Day, to Easter Monday, April 6, 2026. The group, in its recent update on various attacks, said 450 people were killed between [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":229839,"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":[3271,258,256,6192,4327,257,4687,393,6665,254,1775],"class_list":["post-229838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-abducted","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-days","tag-killed","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-nigerians","tag-south-africa-today","tag-terrorists"],"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\/229838","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=229838"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229838\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/229839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}