{"id":77818,"date":"2025-10-31T08:09:17","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T08:09:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=77818"},"modified":"2025-10-31T08:09:17","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T08:09:17","slug":"fct-police-rescue-23-foreign-nationals-arrest-14-kidnappers-in-nasarawa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/10\/31\/fct-police-rescue-23-foreign-nationals-arrest-14-kidnappers-in-nasarawa\/","title":{"rendered":"FCT Police Rescue 23 Foreign Nationals, Arrest 14 Kidnappers in Nasarawa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Onilede Titi Faith<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Police Command has rescued 23 foreign nationals and arrested 14 suspected kidnappers during a major operation in Nasarawa State.<\/p>\n<p>Police spokesperson, SP Josephine Adeh, said in a statement on Friday that the operation, carried out by the Scorpion Squad on October 22 at Angwan Adamu Ruga Fulani Zone B, Ado Mararaba, followed reports of foreigners lured to Nigeria under false job offers.<\/p>\n<p>The victims, 14 men, eight women, and one child were held for ransom in two apartments before being rescued unhurt, except one who sustained a minor injury.<\/p>\n<p>Adeh said the syndicate, led by transnational kingpin Abubakar Jigiba and his brother, Sougule Zoubere, demanded \u20a610 million per victim. The duo remains at large.<\/p>\n<p>Commissioner of Police, CP Miller Dantawaye, commended the operatives and urged residents to report suspicious activities, noting that the raid was part of ongoing efforts to curb banditry and kidnapping in border communities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Onilede Titi Faith &nbsp; The Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Police Command has rescued 23 foreign nationals and arrested 14 suspected kidnappers during a major operation in Nasarawa State. Police spokesperson, SP Josephine Adeh, said in a statement on Friday that the operation, carried out by the Scorpion Squad on October 22 at Angwan Adamu [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":77819,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[181,172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77818","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=77818"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77818\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77820,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77818\/revisions\/77820"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}