{"id":198222,"date":"2019-03-29T00:26:55","date_gmt":"2019-03-28T23:26:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/?p=198222"},"modified":"2019-03-29T00:29:43","modified_gmt":"2019-03-28T23:29:43","slug":"150-children-stranded-as-fcta-demolishes-church-orphanage-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/?p=198222","title":{"rendered":"150 Children Stranded As  FCTA  Demolishes Church,  Orphanage, School"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Federal Capital Territory Administration has demolished the Divine Words of Jesus Christ Church, including a school and orphanage in Kubwa, a satellite town in Abuja, despite a pending suit before a Federal Capital Territory High Court.<br> The demolition of the orphanage by the Department of Development Control officials has, however, rendered 150 orphans homeless.<br> Five buildings comprising a church, orphanage, school and staff quarters were pulled down by the FCT officials on Tuesday.<br> Our correspondent gathered that the land on which the buildings were constructed had been a subject of litigation between the orphanage proprietress who is also the General Overseer of the Words of Jesus Christ Church, Bishop Victoria Ezemoka and her brother-in-law, GoddifulEzegwo.<br> Ezemoka, a widow, explained to newsmen on Wednesday that the case over the ownership of the land was yet to be determined by the court, adding that the case was                             instituted in 2013.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Federal Capital Territory Administration has demolished the Divine Words of Jesus Christ Church, including a school and orphanage in Kubwa, a satellite town in Abuja, despite a pending suit before a Federal Capital Territory High Court. The demolition of the orphanage by the Department of Development Control officials has, however, rendered 150 orphans homeless. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-city-crime"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=198222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198222\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=198222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=198222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=198222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}