{"id":53879,"date":"2025-04-15T07:37:34","date_gmt":"2025-04-15T07:37:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/nigerian-president-confirms-over-40-killed-in-central-state-attack\/"},"modified":"2025-04-15T07:38:22","modified_gmt":"2025-04-15T07:38:22","slug":"nigerian-president-confirms-over-40-killed-in-central-state-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/nigerian-president-confirms-over-40-killed-in-central-state-attack\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigerian president confirms over 40 killed in central state attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a statement, Tinubu expressed &#8220;profound sorrow&#8221; and directed security agencies to investigate the incident and identify those responsible.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We cannot allow this devastation and the tit-for-tat attacks to continue. Enough is enough,&#8221; the president said, adding that he had discussed the issue with the state governor and proposed steps toward lasting peace.<\/p>\n<p>Plateau State, often a flashpoint for violence due to religious and ethnic tensions, has seen a string of deadly attacks. Just over a week ago, 52 people were killed in a separate incident in Bokkos. The motive behind the latest attack remains unknown.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-85722\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/webp\/60406656_605.webp\" alt=\"Nigerian President Bola Tinubu on Monday confirmed that more than 40 people were killed during a Sunday night attack in Zike community\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nigerian President Bola Tinubu on Monday confirmed that more than 40 people were killed during a Sunday night attack in Zike community, Bassa local government area of Plateau State. Unknown gunmen reportedly stormed the area and opened fire on residents, according to local authorities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":2000085721,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-53879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"featured_image":{"id":2000085721,"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/new-project-52-2.jpg","alt":"","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","width":0,"height":0,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/new-project-52-2.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/new-project-52-2.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium_large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/new-project-52-2.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/new-project-52-2.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"full":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/new-project-52-2.jpg","width":0,"height":0}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53879\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000085721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53879"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=53879"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=53879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}