{"id":369151,"date":"2021-06-30T20:06:51","date_gmt":"2021-06-30T19:06:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=369151"},"modified":"2021-06-30T20:07:14","modified_gmt":"2021-06-30T19:07:14","slug":"fg-condemns-killing-of-nigeria-footballer-in-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=369151","title":{"rendered":"FG condemns killing of Nigeria Footballer in UK"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">The Federal government has condemned the alleged killing of a Nigerian Footballer, Kelvin Igweani, by the UK police.<\/p>\n<p>Recall that Igweani, a Nigerian Footballer, was shot dead by officers, who attended a call out to a house, where a child was found with serious injuries.<\/p>\n<p>Reacting, Hon. Abike Dabiri-Erewa, Chairman\/CEO, Nigerians in Diaspora Commission (NIDCOM), in Abuja on Wednesday described the incident as very unfortunate,and sad.<\/p>\n<p>Dabiri-Erewa condoled with the family of the deceased and the Nigerian communities in the UK while praying that God grants rest to the soul of the departed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe call on the UK government for a thorough and proper investigation to be carried out on the incident,\u201d the statement added.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>(DailyPost)<\/em><\/strong><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Federal government has condemned the alleged killing of a Nigerian Footballer, Kelvin Igweani, by the UK police. Recall that Igweani, a Nigerian Footballer, was shot dead by officers, who attended a call out to a house, where a child was found with serious injuries. Reacting, Hon. Abike Dabiri-Erewa, Chairman\/CEO, Nigerians in Diaspora Commission (NIDCOM), [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":369152,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"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":[3773,3],"tags":[16944,4797,16943],"class_list":["post-369151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","category-news","tag-abike","tag-fg","tag-uk-police"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=369151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369151\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/369152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=369151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=369151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=369151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}