{"id":233832,"date":"2026-05-20T16:26:28","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T14:26:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-dhq-dismisses-claims-of-terrorist-base-in-south-west-intensifies-search-for-abducted-oyo-pupils\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T16:26:28","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T14:26:28","slug":"nigeria-dhq-dismisses-claims-of-terrorist-base-in-south-west-intensifies-search-for-abducted-oyo-pupils","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-dhq-dismisses-claims-of-terrorist-base-in-south-west-intensifies-search-for-abducted-oyo-pupils\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: DHQ Dismisses Claims of Terrorist Base in South-West, Intensifies Search for Abducted Oyo Pupils"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"38\">Defence spokesperson Michael Onoja in a statement on Wednesday, said the Chief of Defence Staff, Olufemi Oluyede, &#8220;extends his deepest sympathies to the families of the victims, the government and people of Oyo State, and the entire nation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"46\">The <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/defencehq.mil.ng\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Defence Headquarters<\/a><\/strong> (DHQ) has dismissed reports suggesting that terrorist groups have established a permanent operational base in Nigeria&#8217;s south-west region, describing the recent attack and abduction of pupils and staff in Oyo State as an isolated&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202605200630.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>Defence spokesperson Michael Onoja in a statement on Wednesday, said the Chief of Defence Staff, Olufemi Oluyede, &#8220;extends his deepest sympathies to the families of the victims, the government and people of Oyo State, and the entire nation.&#8221; The Defence Headquarters (DHQ) has dismissed reports suggesting that terrorist groups have established a permanent operational base [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":233833,"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":[3271,258,256,6829,8117,27046,12843,8013,257,4687,393,10769,17917,9020,254,12406,671],"class_list":["post-233832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-abducted","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-base","tag-claims","tag-dhq","tag-dismisses","tag-intensifies","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-oyo","tag-pupils","tag-search","tag-south-africa-today","tag-southwest","tag-terrorist"],"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\/233832","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=233832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233832\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/233833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}