{"id":66879,"date":"2025-05-29T12:18:00","date_gmt":"2025-05-29T12:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=66879"},"modified":"2025-05-29T12:18:00","modified_gmt":"2025-05-29T12:18:00","slug":"unknown-gunmen-abduct-traditional-ruler-in-nasarawa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/05\/29\/unknown-gunmen-abduct-traditional-ruler-in-nasarawa\/","title":{"rendered":"Unknown Gunmen Abduct Traditional Ruler in Nasarawa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Adenike Lawal<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In a fresh blow to Nigeria\u2019s worsening security challenges, Emmanuel Omanji, the traditional ruler of Dari community in Kokona Local Government Area of Nasarawa State, was abducted late Wednesday night by unidentified gunmen.<\/p>\n<p>Eyewitnesses said the attackers stormed the monarch\u2019s residence under the cover of darkness, shooting sporadically to create panic before whisking him away.<\/p>\n<p>The brazen attack has plunged the local community into fear and renewed concerns about the rising spate of insecurity in rural areas.<\/p>\n<p>Confirming the incident, the spokesperson of the Nasarawa State Police Command, DSP Ramhan Nansel, said the Commissioner of Police, Shetima Jauro Mohammed, has launched a coordinated search and rescue mission.<\/p>\n<p>The operation involves the police anti-kidnapping unit, the military, and local vigilante groups.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities have urged residents to provide any useful information that could aid the rescue efforts and help apprehend the perpetrators.<\/p>\n<p>The incident comes amid growing insecurity across Northern Nigeria, where kidnapping for ransom and armed attacks have become increasingly rampant.<\/p>\n<p>In a related incident, several traders were reportedly abducted by suspected terrorists along the Kaduna\u2013Birnin Gwari Road, a notorious hotspot for such attacks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Adenike Lawal &nbsp; In a fresh blow to Nigeria\u2019s worsening security challenges, Emmanuel Omanji, the traditional ruler of Dari community in Kokona Local Government Area of Nasarawa State, was abducted late Wednesday night by unidentified gunmen. Eyewitnesses said the attackers stormed the monarch\u2019s residence under the cover of darkness, shooting sporadically to create panic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":66881,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[181],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66879","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\/66879","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\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66879"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66879\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66882,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66879\/revisions\/66882"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}