Google is picking up an error from Rank Math that is seriously affecting my SEO

Google is picking up an error from Rank Math that is seriously affecting my SEO.

It says the issue is from a missing field, “Location” on my home page. Since Google detected this error, there has been a downward spiral in my SEO results, both from Google and Alexa, with Alexa going down to 233,000 worldwide today, from a high of about 160,000 worldwide.

Here is a screenshot of the error notification in Google Search Console: https://ibb.co/Sr2ytsF

And here is a snippet of the code highlighted there as giving an error. I selected a little bit more for context:

{
“@type”: “WebPage”,
“@id”: “https://lifeandtimesnews.com/#webpage”,
“url”: “https://lifeandtimesnews.com/”,
“name”: “LifeAndTimes News – Breaking Political, Entertainment News”,
“datePublished”: “2017-01-11T12:27:55+00:00”,
“dateModified”: “2021-01-02T08:17:55+00:00”,
“isPartOf”: {
“@id”: “https://lifeandtimesnews.com/#website”
},
“primaryImageOfPage”: {
“@id”: “https://lifeandtimesnews.com/#primaryImage”
},
“inLanguage”: “en-US”
},
{
“@type”: “Event”,
“name”: “LifeAndTimes News – Breaking Political, Entertainment News”,
“description”: “Life and Times News is brings you the latest breaking news from across Africa, Nigeria and the United States. The latest political, entertainment news are here.”,
“eventStatus”: [
“EventScheduled”
],
“eventAttendanceMode”: “https://schema.org/OfflineEventAttendanceMode”,
“location”: [],

On deactivating RankMath, this code is no longer on the home page, and the error cannot be located anymore by Google Search Console, on the homepage.

I feel the setting that has to do with this code snippet on my page is the ‘Titles and Meta > Pages > Schema Type’ section of the Rank Math plugin I chose for my pages to be classified as ‘events’, here because we do create ‘pages’ for event ads on the website. Most ‘posts’ are not for events, but for news articles.

I tried changing this page classification to ‘none’. However, the code and the error still remained, as viewing the source code also revealed. I also tried changing the classification to another page type, but that also left the code the same.

It took deactivating RankMath for the code quoted above, and the error to clear up.

How can I change the code without deactivating the plugin please.

I believe deactivating RankMath would also adversely affect my site’s Google rankings.

Thanks.