{"id":895534,"date":"2026-03-30T07:22:35","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T12:22:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/30\/benue-14-abducted-passengers-regain-freedom\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T07:22:35","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T12:22:35","slug":"benue-14-abducted-passengers-regain-freedom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/30\/benue-14-abducted-passengers-regain-freedom\/","title":{"rendered":"Benue: 14 abducted  passengers regain freedom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fourteen passengers of Igede origin who were abducted along the Utonkon\u2013Okpokwu axis in Benue State have been freed after a reported ransom payment of N1 million. The victims were part of a 16-member group from Obi and Oju Local Government Areas travelling to the South-West when they were attacked around 7pm on February 9&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/dailypost.ng\/2026\/02\/18\/benue-14-abducted-passengers-regain-freedom\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><br \/>\n Winner James<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fourteen passengers of Igede origin who were abducted along the Utonkon\u2013Okpokwu axis in Benue State have been freed after a reported ransom payment of N1 million. The victims were part of a 16-member group from Obi and Oju Local Government Areas travelling to the South-West when they were attacked around 7pm on February 9&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":895535,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64261,118196,192],"tags":[91752,118195],"class_list":{"0":"post-895534","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-abducted","8":"category-benue","9":"category-sports","10":"tag-abducted","11":"tag-benue"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/895534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=895534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/895534\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/895535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=895534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=895534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=895534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}