{"id":77960,"date":"2025-11-03T12:55:17","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T12:55:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=77960"},"modified":"2025-11-03T12:55:17","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T12:55:17","slug":"troops-rescue-two-kidnap-victims-recover-%e2%82%a63-8m-ransom-in-kogi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/11\/03\/troops-rescue-two-kidnap-victims-recover-%e2%82%a63-8m-ransom-in-kogi\/","title":{"rendered":"Troops Rescue Two Kidnap Victims, Recover \u20a63.8m Ransom in Kogi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Sarah Sam Adda<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Troops of the 12 Brigade, Nigerian Army, Lokoja, have rescued two kidnap victims and recovered \u20a63.8 million ransom during an operation in Achigili Forest along the Itobe-Adumu-Ejule road.<\/p>\n<p>Brigade spokesperson, Lt. Hassan Abdullahi, said the rescue followed credible intelligence that relatives of the victims were about to deliver ransom on November 2. Troops from the Forward Operating Base, Oguma, engaged the kidnappers in a gun battle, forcing them to flee and abandon the captives and the cash.<\/p>\n<p>The victims were safely recovered, debriefed, and the ransom returned to them. Abdullahi reaffirmed the Army\u2019s commitment to securing lives and property and urged public cooperation with security agencies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Sarah Sam Adda &nbsp; Troops of the 12 Brigade, Nigerian Army, Lokoja, have rescued two kidnap victims and recovered \u20a63.8 million ransom during an operation in Achigili Forest along the Itobe-Adumu-Ejule road. Brigade spokesperson, Lt. Hassan Abdullahi, said the rescue followed credible intelligence that relatives of the victims were about to deliver ransom on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":77961,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[182,172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-defence-and-security","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77960","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=77960"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77960\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77962,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77960\/revisions\/77962"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}