{"id":85425,"date":"2026-02-24T07:15:51","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T07:15:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=85425"},"modified":"2026-02-24T07:15:51","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T07:15:51","slug":"the-optics-are-terrible-wedding-guest-list-in-spotlight-as-violence-grips-swathes-of-nigeria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/02\/24\/the-optics-are-terrible-wedding-guest-list-in-spotlight-as-violence-grips-swathes-of-nigeria\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018The optics are terrible\u2019: Wedding guest list in spotlight as violence grips swathes of Nigeria"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA1WWtnt.img?w=534&amp;h=427&amp;m=6\" alt=\"Nigeria\u2019s president, Bola Tinubu, attended the Abuja wedding as critics questioned the government\u2019s response to a series of attacks across the country. Photograph: Eraldo Peres\/AP\" width=\"450\" height=\"360\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It has been described as Nigeria\u2019s wedding of the year \u2013 and it is only February. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/news\/world\/the-optics-are-terrible-wedding-guest-list-in-spotlight-as-violence-grips-swathes-of-nigeria\/ar-AA1WWjLg?ocid=msedgdhp&amp;pc=HCTS&amp;cvid=699d4e8b5f004261b5bfd007d508bc19&amp;ei=60\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>It has been described as Nigeria\u2019s wedding of the year \u2013 and it is only February. Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":63427,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[200],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-85425","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cost-of-living-crisis"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Tinubu-ronu.jpeg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85425"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85425\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85427,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85425\/revisions\/85427"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}