{"id":235197,"date":"2026-06-03T04:58:53","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T02:58:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-gunmen-kill-plateau-traditional-ruler\/"},"modified":"2026-06-03T04:58:53","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T02:58:53","slug":"nigeria-gunmen-kill-plateau-traditional-ruler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-gunmen-kill-plateau-traditional-ruler\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: Gunmen Kill Plateau Traditional Ruler"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"17\"><em>&#8220;The death of the monarch is barbaric, unfortunate and unacceptable,&#8221; Langtang South Chairman Nanfa Alhassan Nbin said.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">The traditional ruler of Timshat in Langtang South Local Government Area of Plateau State, Godwin Vonga, has been killed by gunmen along the Timshat-Mabudi Road.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">Mr Vonga, a former councillor for the Nasarawa Ward in Langtang South, was reportedly attacked on Sunday while returning home after dropping his children off at school in Mabudi.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n  <span style=\"font-size: 110%;\"><br \/>\nKeep up with the latest headlines&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202606020479.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>&#8220;The death of the monarch is barbaric, unfortunate and unacceptable,&#8221; Langtang South Chairman Nanfa Alhassan Nbin said. The traditional ruler of Timshat in Langtang South Local Government Area of Plateau State, Godwin Vonga, has been killed by gunmen along the Timshat-Mabudi Road. Mr Vonga, a former councillor for the Nasarawa Ward in Langtang South, was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":235198,"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":[258,256,2107,4266,257,4687,393,14079,17797,254,9464],"class_list":["post-235197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-gunmen","tag-kill","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-plateau","tag-ruler","tag-south-africa-today","tag-traditional"],"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\/235197","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=235197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235197\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/235198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}