{"id":25633,"date":"2022-08-29T15:37:34","date_gmt":"2022-08-29T15:37:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ndarason.com\/?p=25633"},"modified":"2022-08-29T15:37:34","modified_gmt":"2022-08-29T15:37:34","slug":"suspected-iswap-insurgents-attempt-to-infiltrate-gajiram-town-twice-in-three-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ndarason.com\/en\/suspected-iswap-insurgents-attempt-to-infiltrate-gajiram-town-twice-in-three-days\/","title":{"rendered":"Suspected ISWAP insurgents attempt to infiltrate Gajiram town twice in three days"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brief \u2013 The Nigerian Army successfully quashed two attempted attacks on the town of Gajiram in the Nganzai Local Government Area of Borno State last week, the first on Thursday night, August 25, and the second on Saturday morning, August 27.<\/p>\n<p>A resident of Gajiram, who asked to remain anonymous, said residents heard loud gunfire and explosions on Saturday morning as soldiers engaged with insurgents, thought to be members of the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP).<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday the insurgents tried to open the main gate to the town at about 10pm. Again they were repelled by soldiers. No one was wounded or killed.<\/p>\n<p>The resident said: \u201cThe insecurity situation is worsening. The Maiduguri-Nganzai road is not safe. Every day insurgents block the road, stealing travellers\u2019 possessions. They have stolen many motorbikes. They stop vehicles, pretending to be legitimate government officials or security personnel.\u201d He said residents were pleading with the government for better protection.<\/p>\n<p><strong>SHETTIMA LAWAN MONGUNO<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brief \u2013 The Nigerian Army successfully quashed two attempted attacks on the town of Gajiram in the Nganzai Local Government Area of Borno State last week, the first on Thursday [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":10558,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ndarason.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25633"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ndarason.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ndarason.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ndarason.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ndarason.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ndarason.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25633\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ndarason.com\/en\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ndarason.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ndarason.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ndarason.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}