{"id":2478,"date":"2014-06-10T09:17:45","date_gmt":"2014-06-10T02:17:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/?p=2478"},"modified":"2014-06-10T09:17:45","modified_gmt":"2014-06-10T02:17:45","slug":"man-arrested-for-allegedly-fronting-for-boko-haram","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/man-arrested-for-allegedly-fronting-for-boko-haram\/","title":{"rendered":"Man Arrested for Allegedly Fronting for Boko Haram"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Coordinator, National Information Centre, Mr Mike Omeri, on Monday said the Department of State Services (DSS) had arrested a suspect fronting for the Boko Haram sect.<\/p>\n<p>Omeri said at a joint news conference in Abuja that the suspect was extorting money from some influential Nigerians allegedly to protect them.<\/p>\n<p>The coordinator, who is also the Director-General, National Orientation Agency (NOA), said the suspect was being interrogated.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is, therefore, an advice and warning signal to Nigerians to be vigilant on the activities of such characters using Boko Haram as a franchise,\u2019\u2019 he said.<\/p>\n<p>He appealed for understanding on some of the measures being adopted by security agencies in addressing the current challenge.<\/p>\n<p>The coordinator said the action was meant to guarantee safety and not punitive measure.<\/p>\n<p>Also, Maj.-Gen. Chris Olukolade, Director, Defence Information, said the military had no problem with the media and would not for whatever reason hamper their activities&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Source\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nigerianbulletin.com\/threads\/man-arrested-for-allegedly-fronting-for-boko-haram.79436\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Africa News West Africa <a title=\"Nigeria\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/nigeria\/\">Nigeria<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Coordinator, National Information Centre, Mr Mike Omeri, on Monday said the Department of State Services (DSS) had arrested a suspect fronting for the Boko Haram sect. Omeri said at a joint news conference in Abuja that the suspect was extorting money from some influential Nigerians allegedly to protect them. The coordinator, who is also [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[249,297],"tags":[258,256,355,353,401,396,400,397,395,394,398,257,4687,393,399,254,4692],"class_list":["post-2478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","category-west-africa","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-boko-haram","tag-chris-olukolade","tag-defence-information","tag-department-of-state-services","tag-director","tag-dss","tag-mike-omeri","tag-national-information-centre","tag-national-orientation-agency","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-noa","tag-south-africa-today","tag-west-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2478","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2478\/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=2478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}