{"id":1867,"date":"2014-11-20T16:33:34","date_gmt":"2014-11-20T21:33:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=1867"},"modified":"2014-11-20T16:33:34","modified_gmt":"2014-11-20T21:33:34","slug":"nigerian-parliamentarians-scuffle-with-police-africa-al-jazeera-english","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=1867","title":{"rendered":"Nigerian parliamentarians scuffle with police &#8211; Africa &#8211; Al Jazeera English"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/africa\/2014\/11\/police-fire-tear-gas-nigeria-parliament-20141120153647411614.html\">Nigerian parliamentarians scuffle with police &#8211; Africa &#8211; Al Jazeera English<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The president of Nigeria&#8217;s Senate has suspended legislative proceedings in the National Assembly until Tuesday following a scuffle between parliamentarians and police.<\/p>\n<p>David Mark announced the closure on Thursday\u00a0after police fired tear gas inside the parliament building.<\/p>\n<p>The target of the attack seemed to be Aminu Tambuwal, speaker of the House of Representatives,\u00a0who defected to the opposition last month.<\/p>\n<p>Tambuwal said police had prevented him from entering the building, but a police spokesman told Al Jazeera the speaker and his entourage had been behaving in a disorderly manner by breaking through barriers and assaulting police officers on duty.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Following an intelligence report of a likely invasion of the House of Representatives by hoodlums and thugs, the Nigeria Police Force promptly deployed its personnel to the premises to prevent a breakdown of law and order,&#8221; a police statement said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nigerian parliamentarians scuffle with police &#8211; Africa &#8211; Al Jazeera English. The president of Nigeria&#8217;s Senate has suspended legislative proceedings in the National Assembly until Tuesday following a scuffle between parliamentarians and police. David Mark announced the closure on Thursday\u00a0after police fired tear gas inside the parliament building. The target of the attack seemed to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1313,571,1312,632],"class_list":["post-1867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-impeachment","tag-nigeria","tag-parliamentarians","tag-police"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1867"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1867\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1868,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1867\/revisions\/1868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}