{"id":2361,"date":"2014-10-04T11:29:32","date_gmt":"2014-10-04T11:29:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=2361"},"modified":"2014-10-04T11:29:32","modified_gmt":"2014-10-04T11:29:32","slug":"brave-airforce-soldier-who-sacrificed-is-life-for-nigeria-to-kill-boko-haram-members","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=2361","title":{"rendered":"Brave Airforce soldier who sacrificed is life for Nigeria to kill Boko Haram members"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/CHIMDA.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2362\" alt=\"CHIMDA\" src=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/CHIMDA.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"252\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Wing Commander Chimda Hedima 1975 &#8211; 2014.<\/p>\n<p>On 11\/09\/14, a company of NA soldiers attempted to overrun a Boko Haram position in Borno. Due to the low altitude, the plane suffered significant damage from the terrorists&#8217; gun fire. Wing Commander Hedima and his partner realized that they were going to crash.<\/p>\n<p>Instead of hurriedly parachuting to safety within Nigerian controlled territory, they chose to embark on a mission to destroy as many terrorists and their weapons as possible. They parachuted out at the last minute but not before ensuring their plane slammed into a column of terrorists in which 63 Boko Haram members were killed as a result of their bravery.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Wing Commander Hedima was captured. On 12\/09\/14, he was killed by the Boko Haram.<\/p>\n<p>He chose Nigeria, he chose all of us. We cannot forget him. Please share his story. His name should be known by everyone.<\/p>\n<p>Rest In Peace Commander, we are grateful.<\/p>\n<p>May you find eternal peace in the bosom of the almighty God.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wing Commander Chimda Hedima 1975 &#8211; 2014. On 11\/09\/14, a company of NA soldiers attempted to overrun a Boko Haram position in Borno. Due to the low altitude, the plane suffered significant damage from the terrorists&#8217; gun fire. Wing Commander Hedima and his partner realized that they were going to crash. Instead of hurriedly parachuting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2362,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/CHIMDA.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4oswh-C5","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2361"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2361\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2363,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2361\/revisions\/2363"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}