{"id":63157,"date":"2025-03-22T19:40:06","date_gmt":"2025-03-22T19:40:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=63157"},"modified":"2025-03-22T19:40:06","modified_gmt":"2025-03-22T19:40:06","slug":"kidnappers-place-n100-million-ransom-on-naval-officer-two-others-in-abuja","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/03\/22\/kidnappers-place-n100-million-ransom-on-naval-officer-two-others-in-abuja\/","title":{"rendered":"Kidnappers Place N100 Million Ransom on Naval Officer, Two Others in Abuja"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Jesusemen Oratokhai<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A Nigerian Navy officer attached to the Defence Headquarters, Lieutenant Cynthia Akor, has been kidnapped along with two others in the Mpape area of Abuja.<\/p>\n<p>The abductors have demanded a ransom of N100 million for their release.<\/p>\n<p>The victims were seized on Friday night, and sources confirm that the kidnappers have already contacted their families with their demands.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAmong those taken on Friday night in Mpape is a Defence Headquarters official, Akor.<\/p>\n<p>The kidnappers have reached out to their families and are insisting on a N100 million ransom,\u201d a source disclosed.<\/p>\n<p>Efforts to obtain official statements from top military spokespersons, including the Director of Defence Media Operations, Major General Markus Kangye, and the Director of Defence Information, Brigadier General Tukur Gusau, have so far been unsuccessful.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the spokesperson for the Federal Capital Territory Police Command, Josephine Adeh, acknowledged the incident and assured that further details would be provided after verification.<\/p>\n<p>However, no updates had been received at the time of this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Jesusemen Oratokhai A Nigerian Navy officer attached to the Defence Headquarters, Lieutenant Cynthia Akor, has been kidnapped along with two others in the Mpape area of Abuja. The abductors have demanded a ransom of N100 million for their release. The victims were seized on Friday night, and sources confirm that the kidnappers have already [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":63158,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-63157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63157","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\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63157"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63157\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63159,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63157\/revisions\/63159"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}