{"id":239356,"date":"2026-07-23T19:32:22","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T17:32:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/cameroon\/nigeria-boat-mishap-claims-more-than-20-nigerians-in-camerounian-territorial-waters\/"},"modified":"2026-07-23T19:32:22","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T17:32:22","slug":"nigeria-boat-mishap-claims-more-than-20-nigerians-in-camerounian-territorial-waters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/cameroon\/nigeria-boat-mishap-claims-more-than-20-nigerians-in-camerounian-territorial-waters\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: Boat Mishap Claims More Than 20 Nigerians in Camerounian Territorial Waters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"20\">Yola&#8211;No fewer than 20 persons mainly Nigerians have been confirmed killed following a boat mishap within the Cameroun territorial waters.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\">The ill fated boat accident which took off from Garwa was heading to Yola in Adamawa State, when the incident happened.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">It was gathered that the boat with over 50 passengers was over loaded with iron rods and other building materials with a destination at Dasin in Fufore Local Government Area of Adamawa State.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\">Locals within the Nigerian territorial waters&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202607230556.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Cameroon\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/cameroon\/\">Cameroon<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yola&#8211;No fewer than 20 persons mainly Nigerians have been confirmed killed following a boat mishap within the Cameroun territorial waters. The ill fated boat accident which took off from Garwa was heading to Yola in Adamawa State, when the incident happened. It was gathered that the boat with over 50 passengers was over loaded with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[376],"tags":[258,256,7202,377,54928,8117,10479,257,4687,6665,254,11922,7109],"class_list":["post-239356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cameroon","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-boat","tag-cameroon-news","tag-camerounian","tag-claims","tag-mishap","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigerians","tag-south-africa-today","tag-territorial","tag-waters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239356","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=239356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239356\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}