{"id":60817,"date":"2025-02-08T18:53:36","date_gmt":"2025-02-08T18:53:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=60817"},"modified":"2025-02-08T18:53:36","modified_gmt":"2025-02-08T18:53:36","slug":"headmaster-admits-handing-over-sons-to-traffickers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/02\/08\/headmaster-admits-handing-over-sons-to-traffickers\/","title":{"rendered":"Headmaster Admits Handing Over Sons to Traffickers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Our Correspondent<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A primary school headmaster in Niger State, Amilu Usman, has admitted handing over his two sons to human traffickers, claiming it was a desperate attempt to secure better Islamic education for them in Niger Republic.<\/p>\n<p>Usman, whose children were among 21 rescued boys, revealed that parents in Magama LGA paid N35,000 per child monthly for their upkeep in Niger and Mali.<\/p>\n<p>He justified his decision by citing the lack of teachers and infrastructure in local schools.<\/p>\n<p>Niger State Deputy Governor, Yakubu Garba, condemned the act, vowing to crack down on traffickers and hold parents accountable for enabling child trafficking.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities are now hunting for the syndicate behind the operation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Our Correspondent A primary school headmaster in Niger State, Amilu Usman, has admitted handing over his two sons to human traffickers, claiming it was a desperate attempt to secure better Islamic education for them in Niger Republic. Usman, whose children were among 21 rescued boys, revealed that parents in Magama LGA paid N35,000 per [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":60818,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60817","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\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60817"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60817\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60819,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60817\/revisions\/60819"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}