{"id":73676,"date":"2025-08-20T06:38:48","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T06:38:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=73676"},"modified":"2025-08-20T06:38:48","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T06:38:48","slug":"job-scam-five-women-stranded-after-agents-hostage-plot-in-abuja","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/08\/20\/job-scam-five-women-stranded-after-agents-hostage-plot-in-abuja\/","title":{"rendered":"Job Scam: Five Women Stranded After Agent\u2019s Hostage Plot in Abuja"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Olokuta Rofiat<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Five women who traveled from Kaduna to Abuja in search of employment were left stranded after a female agent allegedly lured and held them hostage in Mabushi village.<\/p>\n<p>The victims; three single women, a divorcee, and a widow, shared their ordeal on the Brekete Family program on Human Rights Radio &amp; TV. They said they were promised jobs as restaurant attendants or housemaids, but instead were subjected to degrading conditions upon arrival.<\/p>\n<p>Asma\u2019u Ibrahim, 20, recounted that they were assured decent accommodation and restaurant work, only to be forced to spend the night outside a shop among strangers.<\/p>\n<p>Another victim, Aisha Sunusi, 25, revealed that the agent conducted a disturbing \u201cselection\u201d process based on skin tone and age, offering some \u20a62,000 per day while assigning others as housemaids.<\/p>\n<p>The situation worsened when the agent allegedly demanded \u20a625,000 from each woman as a condition for their release. With no funds to pay or return home, the group remained stranded until one victim pawned her phone for \u20a62,000 to seek help at the media station.<\/p>\n<p>Those appealing for assistance included Khadijatu Kubura, a widow from Kano; Zahara\u2019u Ibrahim from Jigawa; and Aisha Yusha\u2019u from Funtua, Katsina.<\/p>\n<p>Program host Maryam Mbaka warned that the women may have been targeted by a cartel exploiting poverty and illiteracy, stressing the growing dangers of fraudulent job offers in the capital.<\/p>\n<p>The case underscores the rising threat of exploitative job scams in Nigeria and the urgent need for job seekers to verify employment opportunities before embarking on such journeys.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Olokuta Rofiat Five women who traveled from Kaduna to Abuja in search of employment were left stranded after a female agent allegedly lured and held them hostage in Mabushi village. The victims; three single women, a divorcee, and a widow, shared their ordeal on the Brekete Family program on Human Rights Radio &amp; TV. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":73677,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[177,172],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-73676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-abuja-reports","category-news","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73676","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=73676"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73676\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73678,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73676\/revisions\/73678"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}