{"id":81710,"date":"2026-01-16T06:19:53","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T06:19:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=81710"},"modified":"2026-01-16T06:19:53","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T06:19:53","slug":"kidnappers-free-edo-doctor-after-n50m-ransom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2026\/01\/16\/kidnappers-free-edo-doctor-after-n50m-ransom\/","title":{"rendered":"Kidnappers Free Edo Doctor After N50m Ransom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Patrick Idowu<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>An abducted medical doctor, Dr. Ibrahim Tahir, has been released by his captors after his family paid a N50 million ransom.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Tahir was kidnapped alongside his younger brother on January 2 at their residence along City Pride Road, Igbira Camp, Auchi, Edo State, while opening the gate to their compound.<\/p>\n<p>Tragically, the younger brother was later killed by the kidnappers, and his body was discovered on January 5 near Orley River, off City Pride Road.<\/p>\n<p>The victim\u2019s father said the ransom was paid in two tranches of N20 million and N30 million, leading to Dr. Tahir\u2019s release at about 8 a.m. on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>He added that funds were raised through contributions from family members, friends, non-governmental organisations and well-wishers.<\/p>\n<p>He also disclosed that Dr. Tahir sustained a bullet injury to his leg and is currently receiving treatment at a hospital.<\/p>\n<p>Vigilantes and hunters involved in efforts to secure his release reportedly told the family that one of the kidnappers was also shot during an ambush.<\/p>\n<p>Confirming the development, the spokesperson of the Edo State Police Command, Eno Ikoedem, said the victim has regained his freedom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Patrick Idowu An abducted medical doctor, Dr. Ibrahim Tahir, has been released by his captors after his family paid a N50 million ransom. Dr. Tahir was kidnapped alongside his younger brother on January 2 at their residence along City Pride Road, Igbira Camp, Auchi, Edo State, while opening the gate to their compound. Tragically, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":81711,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1724,172],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-81710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-insecurity","category-news","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81710","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=81710"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81710\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81712,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81710\/revisions\/81712"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}