{"id":13022,"date":"2024-01-02T09:34:41","date_gmt":"2024-01-02T09:34:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=13022"},"modified":"2024-01-02T09:34:41","modified_gmt":"2024-01-02T09:34:41","slug":"bandits-storms-nasarawa-community-abducts-lg-chair-others","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2024\/01\/02\/bandits-storms-nasarawa-community-abducts-lg-chair-others\/","title":{"rendered":"Bandits Storms Nasarawa Community Abducts  LG Chair, Others"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Gunmen believed to be bandits have abducted the Chairman of Akwanga Local Government of Nasarawa State, Mr. Safiyanu Andaha.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Abuja City Journal learnt that the council boss was kidnapped alongside others including a renowned philanthropist in the local government, Mr. Adamu Umar popularly known as Maccido.<\/p>\n<p>It was gathered that the council chairman and others were abducted along Andaha-Akwanga road on Monday evening by the gunmen.<\/p>\n<p>A close aide to the chairman, who preferred anonymity, told our correspondent that the gunmen appeared from the bush and whisked away the victims to an unknown destination.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe gunmen appeared from the bush and whisked away the kidnapped victims to yet to be identified destination,\u201d the source said.<\/p>\n<p>The Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), Nasarawa State Command, DSP Rahman Nansel, is yet to brief newsmen on the incident.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"aswift_1_host\" title=\"Advertisement\" aria-label=\"Advertisement\"><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gunmen believed to be bandits have abducted the Chairman of Akwanga Local Government of Nasarawa State, Mr. Safiyanu Andaha.\u00a0 Abuja City Journal learnt that the council boss was kidnapped alongside others including a renowned philanthropist in the local government, Mr. Adamu Umar popularly known as Maccido. It was gathered that the council chairman and others [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":13026,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13022"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13022\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13040,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13022\/revisions\/13040"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}