{"id":73291,"date":"2025-08-15T13:05:43","date_gmt":"2025-08-15T13:05:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=73291"},"modified":"2025-08-15T13:05:43","modified_gmt":"2025-08-15T13:05:43","slug":"nigerian-miners-rescued-from-car-seek-justice-unpaid-wages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/08\/15\/nigerian-miners-rescued-from-car-seek-justice-unpaid-wages\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigerian Miners Rescued from CAR Seek Justice, Unpaid Wages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Anifowoshe Oladipupo<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Eleven Nigerian miners, recently freed from a harrowing ordeal in the Central African Republic (CAR), are appealing to the federal government to help them recover nearly a year\u2019s worth of unpaid salaries.<\/p>\n<p>The miners, allegedly recruited by a Nigerian agent and a Chinese national, were abandoned in CAR without pay for 11 months.<\/p>\n<p>Their plight gained public attention after a viral video showed them pleading for help.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking in Abuja on behalf of the group, Freeborn Igorigo thanked President Bola Tinubu for facilitating their swift rescue.<\/p>\n<p>He described their time in CAR\u2019s forest as life-threatening, citing intimidation by armed soldiers, physical assaults, and even imprisonment.<\/p>\n<p>While grateful to be home, Igorigo said the rescue was \u201conly the first step,\u201d urging authorities to compel their employers to settle outstanding wages.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf such companies get away with this, it will encourage more exploitation of Nigerians abroad,\u201d he warned.<\/p>\n<p>The rescue was coordinated by Nigeria\u2019s ambassador to CAR, the Office of the National Security Adviser, the Department of State Services (DSS), and the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Anifowoshe Oladipupo Eleven Nigerian miners, recently freed from a harrowing ordeal in the Central African Republic (CAR), are appealing to the federal government to help them recover nearly a year\u2019s worth of unpaid salaries. The miners, allegedly recruited by a Nigerian agent and a Chinese national, were abandoned in CAR without pay for 11 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":73292,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-73291","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\/73291","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=73291"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73291\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73293,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73291\/revisions\/73293"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}