{"id":76965,"date":"2025-10-20T08:59:52","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T08:59:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=76965"},"modified":"2025-10-20T08:59:52","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T08:59:52","slug":"gunmen-abduct-fct-teacher-demand-%e2%82%a61m-ransom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/10\/20\/gunmen-abduct-fct-teacher-demand-%e2%82%a61m-ransom\/","title":{"rendered":"Gunmen Abduct FCT Teacher, Demand \u20a61m Ransom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Samuel Adeola<\/p>\n<p>Gunmen have kidnapped a primary school teacher, Ishaya Ismaila, while harvesting maize on his farm in Tungan Maje, Gwagwalada Area Council of the FCT.<\/p>\n<p>Residents said the armed men stormed the farm around 5:30 p.m. on Thursday and whisked him away. Ismaila, who teaches at LEA Primary School, Dakwa 1 in Bwari Area Council, lives in Tungan Maje with his family.<\/p>\n<p>His wife, Halima, said the abductors later demanded \u20a61 million ransom but the family has only managed to raise \u20a6185,000.<\/p>\n<p>The head teacher, Malam Zakari Dantani, confirmed the abduction, adding that security agencies and the Nigeria Union of Teachers have been notified.<\/p>\n<p>Police in Zuba said efforts were ongoing to rescue the victim and arrest the kidnappers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Samuel Adeola Gunmen have kidnapped a primary school teacher, Ishaya Ismaila, while harvesting maize on his farm in Tungan Maje, Gwagwalada Area Council of the FCT. Residents said the armed men stormed the farm around 5:30 p.m. on Thursday and whisked him away. Ismaila, who teaches at LEA Primary School, Dakwa 1 in Bwari [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":76966,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76965","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\/76965","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\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76965"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76965\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76967,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76965\/revisions\/76967"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}