{"id":50069,"date":"2021-09-13T19:04:26","date_gmt":"2021-09-13T18:04:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/?p=50069"},"modified":"2021-09-13T17:20:40","modified_gmt":"2021-09-13T16:20:40","slug":"sit-at-home-gunmen-invade-imo-school-chase-wasce-candidates-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/sit-at-home-gunmen-invade-imo-school-chase-wasce-candidates-away","title":{"rendered":"Sit-at-home: Gunmen invade Imo School, chase WASCE candidates away"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\">Nigeria<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>Unknown gunmen have attacked the Comprehensive Secondary School, Nkume in Njaba Local Government Area of Imo State following the declaration of sit-at-home order by the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB.<\/p>\n<p>The armed men reportedly invaded the school premises when some students were participating in the ongoing 2021 West African School Certificate Examination (WASCE) and stopped the exercise.<\/p>\n<p>Details of the incident is still sketchy as of press time but it was learnt that five hoodlums destroyed some properties during the attack<\/p>\n<p>The Imo State Police Public Relations Officer, CSP Mike Abattam, could not take his calls and was unable to respond to text messages forwarded to him.<\/p>\n<p>Recall that IPOB had ordered that the region must observe sit-at-home every Monday in solidarity for its leader, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu who has been in the custody of the Department of State Services.<\/p>\n<p>More to follow\u2026..<\/p>\n<p>English Language: Abia Govt warns against IPOB\u2019s sit-at-home as students continue WASCE<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. Unknown gunmen have attacked the Comprehensive Secondary School, Nkume in Njaba Local Government Area of Imo State following the declaration of sit-at-home order by the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB. The armed men reportedly invaded the school premises when some students were participating in the ongoing 2021 West African School Certificate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":50068,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,29,28,14,26],"tags":[1570,2140,1578,190,1018,254,5402],"class_list":["post-50069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-head-lines","category-homepage-english","category-policy","category-twitter","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-nigeria-2","tag-breaking","tag-gunmen","tag-imo","tag-nigeria","tag-wasce"],"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>Sit-at-home: Gunmen invade Imo School, chase WASCE candidates away - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Unknown gunmen have attacked the Comprehensive Secondary School, Nkume in Njaba Local Government Area of Imo State follo ...\" \/>\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\/sit-at-home-gunmen-invade-imo-school-chase-wasce-candidates-away\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Sit-at-home: Gunmen invade Imo School, chase WASCE candidates away\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Unknown gunmen have attacked the Comprehensive Secondary School, Nkume in Njaba Local Government Area of Imo State follo ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/sit-at-home-gunmen-invade-imo-school-chase-wasce-candidates-away\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2021-09-13T18:04:26+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2021\/09\/img-613f7a37f070e.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1280\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"720\" \/>\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\/sit-at-home-gunmen-invade-imo-school-chase-wasce-candidates-away#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/sit-at-home-gunmen-invade-imo-school-chase-wasce-candidates-away\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Sit-at-home: Gunmen invade Imo School, chase WASCE candidates away\",\"datePublished\":\"2021-09-13T18:04:26+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/sit-at-home-gunmen-invade-imo-school-chase-wasce-candidates-away\"},\"wordCount\":168,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/sit-at-home-gunmen-invade-imo-school-chase-wasce-candidates-away#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2021\/09\/img-613f7a37f070e.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Nigeria\",\"breaking\",\"Gunmen\",\"Imo\",\"Nigeria\",\"WASCE\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"head lines\",\"homepage-english\",\"Policy\",\"twitter\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/sit-at-home-gunmen-invade-imo-school-chase-wasce-candidates-away#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/sit-at-home-gunmen-invade-imo-school-chase-wasce-candidates-away\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/sit-at-home-gunmen-invade-imo-school-chase-wasce-candidates-away\",\"name\":\"Sit-at-home: Gunmen invade Imo School, chase WASCE candidates away - 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