{"id":438755,"date":"2010-03-17T08:31:33","date_gmt":"2010-03-17T12:31:33","guid":{"rendered":"tag:www.wombles.org.uk:\/\/84c98d3a79a4368f5d52ee846cba02c4"},"modified":"2010-03-17T08:31:33","modified_gmt":"2010-03-17T12:31:33","slug":"soyinka-defends-nigerias-militants-as-attacks-continue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/438755","title":{"rendered":"Soyinka defends Nigeria&#8217;s militants as attacks continue"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"newsimg\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wombles.org.uk\/article2010035923.php\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wombles.org.uk\/files\/images\/mend1.thumbnail.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"100\" alt=\"Nigeria: Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (Mend), 2010\" \/><br \/>Click for full image<\/a><\/div>\n<p>from priceofoil, 16 March 2010: &#8220;Wole Soyinka, the Nigerian Nobel peace prize novelist warned that Nigeria is close to breaking up and had become a failed state. He said the leadership of the country has descended into a \u201ctheatre of the absurd\u201d. Soyinka\u2019s warnings came soon after the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (Mend) \u2013 the leading militant group in the delta region \u2013 set off two car bombs, in the government building in the southern oil city of Warri, where talks were being held about implementing an amnesty programme&#8230;&#8221;&nbsp;<span class='read-more'><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wombles.org.uk\/article2010035923.php\">more<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Click for full image from priceofoil, 16 March 2010: &#8220;Wole Soyinka, the Nigerian Nobel peace prize novelist warned that Nigeria is close to breaking up and had become a failed state. He said the leadership of the country has descended into a \u201ctheatre of the absurd\u201d. Soyinka\u2019s warnings came soon after the Movement for the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-438755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=438755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438755\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=438755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=438755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=438755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}