{"id":18836,"date":"2024-02-07T10:50:00","date_gmt":"2024-02-07T10:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=18836"},"modified":"2024-02-07T10:50:00","modified_gmt":"2024-02-07T10:50:00","slug":"abducted-abia-varsity-deputy-vice-chancellor-regains-freedom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2024\/02\/07\/abducted-abia-varsity-deputy-vice-chancellor-regains-freedom\/","title":{"rendered":"Abducted Abia Varsity Deputy Vice Chancellor Regains Freedom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Deputy Vice-Chancellor Administration of Abia State University, Prof Godwin Emezue, has been freed from captivity after spending 11 days in the hands of kidnappers.<\/p>\n<p>The abduction occurred at a filling station in Umuahia, the state capital, and Prof Emezue was released on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n<p>Initially, the kidnappers demanded a ransom of N35 million, and they released footage showing the professor being tortured, with threats to his life if the ransom was not paid.<\/p>\n<p>While the ransom demand was not fully met, Prof Emezue is currently undergoing medical treatment in an undisclosed hospital due to the injuries sustained from the ordeal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Deputy Vice-Chancellor Administration of Abia State University, Prof Godwin Emezue, has been freed from captivity after spending 11 days in the hands of kidnappers. The abduction occurred at a filling station in Umuahia, the state capital, and Prof Emezue was released on Tuesday night. Initially, the kidnappers demanded a ransom of N35 million, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":18837,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[181],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18836","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\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18836"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18836\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18838,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18836\/revisions\/18838"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}