{"id":145066,"date":"2025-01-05T21:41:18","date_gmt":"2025-01-05T20:41:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/kaduna-gov-sanis-aide-rachael-averik-alleges-assassination-attempt"},"modified":"2025-01-05T22:45:16","modified_gmt":"2025-01-05T21:45:16","slug":"kaduna-gov-sanis-aide-rachael-averik-alleges-assassination-attempt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/kaduna-gov-sanis-aide-rachael-averik-alleges-assassination-attempt","title":{"rendered":"Kaduna: Gov Sani\u2019s aide, Rachael Averik alleges assassination attempt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>The Special Assistant on Political Affairs to the Governor of Kaduna State, Rachael Averik, has allegedly escaped an assassination attempt in Southern Kaduna.<\/p>\n<p>Rachael disclosed this in a statement on her verified Facebook page and \u2018Kaduna Political Affairs\u2019, a popular forum where politicians and other citizens air their views.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe incident occurred between Tsauni Majidadi and Gani villages in Sanga Local Government Area, while she was on her way to Gwantu after visiting Arak Chiefdom for a condolence visit and commissioning a hospital built by Alh. Muhammad Umar Numbu,\u201d the statement said.<\/p>\n<p>She stated that one of the police officers accompanying her and the driver were injured in a gun battle with the assailants, who opened fire on their vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>The Kaduna Police Public Relations Officer, could not pick his calls, and did not respond to text message sent to him for confirmation of the incident.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Nigeria<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. The Special Assistant on Political Affairs to the Governor of Kaduna State, Rachael Averik, has allegedly escaped an assassination attempt in Southern Kaduna. Rachael disclosed this in a statement on her verified Facebook page and \u2018Kaduna Political Affairs\u2019, a popular forum where politicians and other citizens air their views. \u201cThe incident occurred [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":145065,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[96,254,15472,3627],"class_list":["post-145066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-kaduna","tag-nigeria","tag-rachael-averik","tag-sani"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Kaduna: Gov Sani\u2019s aide, Rachael Averik alleges assassination attempt - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Special Assistant on Political Affairs to the Governor of Kaduna State, Rachael Averik, has allegedly escaped an ass ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/kaduna-gov-sanis-aide-rachael-averik-alleges-assassination-attempt\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Kaduna: Gov Sani\u2019s aide, Rachael Averik alleges assassination attempt\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Special Assistant on Political Affairs to the Governor of Kaduna State, Rachael Averik, has allegedly escaped an ass ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/kaduna-gov-sanis-aide-rachael-averik-alleges-assassination-attempt\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-01-05T20:41:18+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-01-05T21:45:16+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/01\/sm_1736100901.484399.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"720\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"540\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/kaduna-gov-sanis-aide-rachael-averik-alleges-assassination-attempt#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/kaduna-gov-sanis-aide-rachael-averik-alleges-assassination-attempt\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Kaduna: Gov Sani\u2019s aide, Rachael Averik alleges assassination attempt\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-01-05T20:41:18+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-01-05T21:45:16+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/kaduna-gov-sanis-aide-rachael-averik-alleges-assassination-attempt\"},\"wordCount\":168,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/kaduna-gov-sanis-aide-rachael-averik-alleges-assassination-attempt#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/01\/sm_1736100901.484399.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Kaduna\",\"Nigeria\",\"Rachael Averik\",\"sani\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/kaduna-gov-sanis-aide-rachael-averik-alleges-assassination-attempt#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/kaduna-gov-sanis-aide-rachael-averik-alleges-assassination-attempt\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/kaduna-gov-sanis-aide-rachael-averik-alleges-assassination-attempt\",\"name\":\"Kaduna: Gov Sani\u2019s aide, Rachael Averik alleges assassination attempt - 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