{"id":371,"date":"2015-01-05T09:28:49","date_gmt":"2015-01-05T09:28:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/box5917.temp.domains\/~iriacom\/\/news\/?p=371"},"modified":"2015-01-12T15:22:55","modified_gmt":"2015-01-12T15:22:55","slug":"boko-haram-seizes-military-base-in-nigeria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/boko-haram-seizes-military-base-in-nigeria\/","title":{"rendered":"Boko Haram seizes military base in Nigeria"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"el__leafmedia el__leafmedia--sourced-paragraph\">\n<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph\">Hundreds of Islamist militants have seized a multinational military base in northeastern Nigeria, according to a government official.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph\">&#8220;Boko Haram overwhelmed the Multinational Joint Task Force and dislodged them from their base outside Baga after hours-long fighting,&#8221; said Maina Ma&#8217;aji Lawan, a Nigerian senator \u200efrom the state of Borno, where Baga is located.<\/p>\n<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph\">&#8220;They came in huge numbers heavily armed and subdued the multinational troops consisting (of) soldiers from Nigeria, Niger and Chad,&#8221; Lawan said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph\">The Multinational Joint Task Force (MNJTF) was formed in 1998 to combat light arms proliferation and human trafficking. More recently, it has been involved in the fight against Boko Haram.<\/p>\n<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph\">It was not immediately clear how many troops were at the base at the time of the attack, which happened Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph\">Boko Haram has terrorized northern Nigeria regularly since 2009, attacking police, schools, churches and civilians, and bombing government buildings.<\/p>\n<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph\"><a href=\"http:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2015\/01\/04\/africa\/nigeria-boko-haram-attack\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">CNN<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hundreds of Islamist militants have seized a multinational military base in northeastern Nigeria, according to a government [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":334,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[38,1],"tags":[103,15,5,104,11],"class_list":["post-371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-africa","category-news","tag-boko-haram","tag-militants","tag-military","tag-nigeria","tag-terrorism"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Boko-Haram.jpg?fit=624%2C351&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7jJWb-5Z","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=371"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":374,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371\/revisions\/374"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}