{"id":121788,"date":"2021-05-07T15:56:01","date_gmt":"2021-05-07T07:56:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=121788"},"modified":"2021-05-07T15:56:03","modified_gmt":"2021-05-07T07:56:03","slug":"more-nigerian-students-kidnapped-in-fresh-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=121788","title":{"rendered":"More Nigerian students kidnapped in fresh attack"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignwide\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanaweb.com\/GhanaHomePage\/africa\/More-Nigerian-students-kidnapped-in-fresh-attack-1254043?gallery=1\"><img src=\"https:\/\/cdn.ghanaweb.com\/imagelib\/pics\/228\/22885991.295.jpg\" alt=\"File Photo: Nigerian flag\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>ABUJA, May 7 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; An unknown number of university students have been kidnapped in the south-eastern Nigerian state of Abia.<br><br>The group was abducted on Wednesday, the same day that 29 students seized last month in the north-western state of Kaduna were released, reportedly after the payment of a ransom.<br><br>Authorities in Umuahia, in the state, say the students of the Abia State University Uturu were moving in a minivan on Wednesday evening when they ran into the armed gang. They were kidnapped alongside other travelers.<br><br>A statement by the Information Commissioner John Kalu said two of the students escaped from the kidnappers while others were still being held at an unknown location.<br><br>Such abductions have become common in parts of Nigeria.<br><br>On Thursday, Nigeria\u2019s military chiefs appeared before parliament to be questioned on the security challenges in the country.<br><br>President\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanaweb.com\/GhanaHomePage\/people\/person.php?ID=3845\">Muhammadu Buhari<\/a>\u00a0is under increasing pressure over the surging violence by criminal gangs, Islamist militants and separatists.<br><br>Parliament has urged him to declare a nationwide state of emergency. &#8212; NNN-AGENCIES<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ABUJA, May 7 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; An unknown number of university students have been kidnapped in the south-eastern Nigerian state of Abia. The group was abducted on Wednesday, the same day that 29 students seized last month in the north-western state of Kaduna were released, reportedly after the payment of a ransom. Authorities in Umuahia, in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":121789,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[213],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121788"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=121788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121788\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/121789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=121788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=121788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=121788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}