{"id":2368,"date":"2023-09-22T09:54:34","date_gmt":"2023-09-22T09:54:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=2368"},"modified":"2023-09-22T09:54:34","modified_gmt":"2023-09-22T09:54:34","slug":"just-in-bandits-invades-zamfara-varsity-abduct-scores-of-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2023\/09\/22\/just-in-bandits-invades-zamfara-varsity-abduct-scores-of-students\/","title":{"rendered":"JUST IN: Bandits Invades Zamfara Varsity, Abduct Scores of Students"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Idowu Patrick<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Bandits have reportedly attacked the Federal University of Gusau (FUG) Zamfara state and abducted an unspecified number of students.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The bandits were said to have attacked three hostels of the school around 3 am on Friday. Reports say about 24 students were abducted.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Sources said the bandits split themselves into two groups \u2014 the first group went away with the abductees, while the second group were said to have engaged troops who were trying to repel the attack in a gun battle.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In August, bandits abducted eight graduates travelling from Akwa Ibom to Sokoto for the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) orientation camp in the outskirts of Zamfara.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Idowu Patrick &nbsp; Bandits have reportedly attacked the Federal University of Gusau (FUG) Zamfara state and abducted an unspecified number of students. &nbsp; The bandits were said to have attacked three hostels of the school around 3 am on Friday. Reports say about 24 students were abducted. &nbsp; Sources said the bandits split themselves into [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2199,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[181],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-2368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2368","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2368"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2369,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2368\/revisions\/2369"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}