{"id":2721,"date":"2014-06-16T11:47:08","date_gmt":"2014-06-16T04:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/?p=2721"},"modified":"2014-06-16T11:47:08","modified_gmt":"2014-06-16T04:47:08","slug":"nigerias-imo-state-governor-condemns-attempt-to-bomb-oyedepos-church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigerias-imo-state-governor-condemns-attempt-to-bomb-oyedepos-church\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria&#8217;s Imo State Governor Condemns Attempt to Bomb Oyedepo&#8217;s Church"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Governor Rochas Okorocha of Imo state has condemned Sunday\u2019s attempt to bomb Pastor David Oyedepo&#8217;s church,the Living Faith Church located on Port Harcourt Road, Owerri.<\/p>\n<p>Okorocha, who addressed newsmen condemned the act, and commended the security agencies for their timely intervention.<\/p>\n<p>Two improvised explosive devices (IEDs) were hidden under a flower pot at the entrance to the church.<\/p>\n<p>The governor urged the people of the state to be security conscious at all times and to report any strange objects or movement around them to the security agencies. Okorocha said that the explosives planted at the church premises could have killed many innocent people, if they had exploded&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Nigeria\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nigerianbulletin.com\/threads\/imo-governor-rochas-okorocha-condemns-attempt-to-bomb-oyedepos-church.80303\/\" 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>Governor Rochas Okorocha of Imo state has condemned Sunday\u2019s attempt to bomb Pastor David Oyedepo&#8217;s church,the Living Faith Church located on Port Harcourt Road, Owerri. Okorocha, who addressed newsmen condemned the act, and commended the security agencies for their timely intervention. Two improvised explosive devices (IEDs) were hidden under a flower pot at the entrance [&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":[258,256,904,898,903,900,902,257,4687,393,901,899,254,4692],"class_list":["post-2721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","category-west-africa","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-explosives","tag-governor-rochas-okorocha","tag-ied","tag-imo-state","tag-improvised-explosive-devices","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-owerri","tag-rochas-okorocha","tag-south-africa-today","tag-west-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2721","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=2721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2721\/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=2721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}