{"id":149584,"date":"2021-10-23T15:33:12","date_gmt":"2021-10-23T07:33:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=149584"},"modified":"2021-10-23T15:33:12","modified_gmt":"2021-10-23T07:33:12","slug":"gunmen-abduct-14-travellers-in-central-nigeria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=149584","title":{"rendered":"Gunmen abduct 14 travellers in central Nigeria"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table><tbody><tr><td><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.ghanaweb.com\/imagelib\/pics\/457\/45743842.jpg\" width=\"\" height=\"\" alt=\"Niger State governor, Abubakar Sani Bello\"><\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Niger State governor, Abubakar Sani Bello<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"article-123\">MINNA (Niger state, Nigeria), Oct 23 (NNN-GNA) &#8212; Nigerian police confirmed the abduction of 14 travellers by gunmen in the country&#8217;s north-central state of Niger.<br><br>Monday Kuryas, the Police Chief in the Niger state, told reporters at a press briefing in the state capital Minna, that some gunmen wearing military uniforms attacked a bus conveying people, along a road near the Konar Barau village in the Rafi local government area of the state.<br><br>Kuryas said the police got a distress call from the bus driver informing them that 13 of his passengers together with his conductor on the bus were abducted by the gunmen.<br><br>He said the victims were traveling from the northwestern state of Kebbi en route the Niger state to the southern state of Bayelsa on fishing activities.<br><br>&#8220;We are doing everything humanly possible to ensure the protection of lives and property,&#8221; Kuryas said, urging local communities to provide useful information that could aid the security personnel in apprehending the suspects. &#8212; NNN-GNA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Niger State governor, Abubakar Sani Bello MINNA (Niger state, Nigeria), Oct 23 (NNN-GNA) &#8212; Nigerian police confirmed the abduction of 14 travellers by gunmen in the country&#8217;s north-central state of Niger. Monday Kuryas, the Police Chief in the Niger state, told reporters at a press briefing in the state capital Minna, that some gunmen wearing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":149585,"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\/149584"}],"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=149584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149584\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/149585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=149584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=149584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=149584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}