{"id":244584,"date":"2026-09-16T22:30:29","date_gmt":"2026-09-16T20:30:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-kwara-journalist-raises-alarm-over-alleged-threat-to-kill-him-family\/"},"modified":"2026-09-16T22:30:29","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T20:30:29","slug":"nigeria-kwara-journalist-raises-alarm-over-alleged-threat-to-kill-him-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-kwara-journalist-raises-alarm-over-alleged-threat-to-kill-him-family\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: Kwara Journalist Raises Alarm Over Alleged Threat to Kill Him, Family"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"12\">Usman Haruna says he received an SMS threatening him and his family.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">A Kwara-based journalist, Usman Haruna, has raised an alarm after receiving a text message threatening that he and his family could be subjected to &#8220;very brutal things.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">Mr Haruna, Editor-in-Chief of NupekoTV, told PREMIUM TIMES that the message was sent at about 8:35 p.m. on 23 August, while he was in Ilorin.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">The sender identified himself as &#8220;Biggy from Temidire&#8221; and claimed that he had been monitoring Mr Haruna and his family&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202609160416.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow 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>Usman Haruna says he received an SMS threatening him and his family. A Kwara-based journalist, Usman Haruna, has raised an alarm after receiving a text message threatening that he and his family could be subjected to &#8220;very brutal things.&#8221; Mr Haruna, Editor-in-Chief of NupekoTV, told PREMIUM TIMES that the message was sent at about 8:35 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":244585,"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":[258,256,9582,4305,5203,7277,4266,12920,257,4687,393,5234,254,6791],"class_list":["post-244584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-alarm","tag-alleged","tag-family","tag-journalist","tag-kill","tag-kwara","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-raises","tag-south-africa-today","tag-threat"],"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\/244584","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=244584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244584\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/244585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}