{"id":152167,"date":"2025-02-21T22:18:24","date_gmt":"2025-02-21T21:18:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/abducted-niger-council-secretary-escapes-from-captors"},"modified":"2025-02-21T22:18:24","modified_gmt":"2025-02-21T21:18:24","slug":"abducted-niger-council-secretary-escapes-from-captors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/abducted-niger-council-secretary-escapes-from-captors","title":{"rendered":"Abducted Niger council secretary escapes from captors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>The Chairman of Munya Local Government Area in Niger State, Aminu Najumei, has disclosed that the council secretary, Daina Usman, who was abducted on Thursday night, managed to escape from his captors on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on Friday in response to reports of the abduction, Najumei explained that Usman fled while the bandits were searching for a hiding place.<\/p>\n<p>Usman was kidnapped alongside his wife, two children, and another individual during a late-night attack in Sarkin Pawa, Niger State. The assailants reportedly stormed his residence near the riverbank around 10 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Confirming Usman\u2019s escape, Niger State Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Wasi\u2019u Abiodun, said that the official regained his freedom at about 3:00 a.m. on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>He added, \u201cEfforts to rescue the remaining victims are ongoing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Nigeria<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. The Chairman of Munya Local Government Area in Niger State, Aminu Najumei, has disclosed that the council secretary, Daina Usman, who was abducted on Thursday night, managed to escape from his captors on Friday. Speaking on Friday in response to reports of the abduction, Najumei explained that Usman fled while the bandits [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":152166,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[96,2917,470,254],"class_list":["post-152167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-kaduna","tag-kidnappers","tag-niger","tag-nigeria"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Abducted Niger council secretary escapes from captors - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/abducted-niger-council-secretary-escapes-from-captors\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Abducted Niger council secretary escapes from captors\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. 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