{"id":167710,"date":"2025-06-30T19:00:41","date_gmt":"2025-06-30T18:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/agro-chemical-dealer-abducted-in-kwara-community"},"modified":"2025-06-30T20:00:19","modified_gmt":"2025-06-30T19:00:19","slug":"agro-chemical-dealer-abducted-in-kwara-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/economy\/agro-chemical-dealer-abducted-in-kwara-community","title":{"rendered":"Agro-chemical dealer abducted in Kwara community"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>A well-known agro-chemical dealer in Lafiagi, Edu Local Government Area of Kwara State, simply identified as Alhaji Chemical, has been abducted from his Taiwo area residence in the community.<\/p>\n<p>The victim was abducted Sunday morning in Lafiagi at about 1:00 a.m., allegedly by suspected Fulani bandits, who reportedly overwhelmed local vigilantes at the scene of the crime with their superior firepower and motorcycles.<\/p>\n<p>According to reports, the assailants specifically targeted Alhaji Chemical for his abduction.<\/p>\n<p>Local vigilantes were unable to prevent the kidnapping due to the bandits\u2019 heavy weaponry and quick getaway on motorbikes.<\/p>\n<p>The incident has sent shockwaves through the Lafiagi community, raising fears about the escalating insecurity in the region.<\/p>\n<p>Residents urged security agencies to take swift action to ensure Alhaji Chemical\u2019s safe return and to curb the rising wave of abductions plaguing the area.<\/p>\n<p>Recently, two persons, including the owner of Daniyan Saba Petroleum filling station, Abass Daniyan, and his manager, Abubakar Issa, were abducted at Ndeji community in the same Edu Local Government Area of the state.<\/p>\n<p>The duo, abducted on May 10, 2025, were only released after a month in captivity upon payment of about N100 million ransom.<\/p>\n<p>Efforts to reach the spokesperson of the state police command, SP Adetoun Ejire-Adeyemi, in Ilorin on Monday, on the latest development, proved abortive.<\/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. A well-known agro-chemical dealer in Lafiagi, Edu Local Government Area of Kwara State, simply identified as Alhaji Chemical, has been abducted from his Taiwo area residence in the community. The victim was abducted Sunday morning in Lafiagi at about 1:00 a.m., allegedly by suspected Fulani bandits, who reportedly overwhelmed local vigilantes at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":167709,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,15,29,28,2660],"tags":[1205,254],"class_list":["post-167710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-economy","category-head-lines","category-homepage-english","category-to-homepage","tag-kwara","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>Agro-chemical dealer abducted in Kwara community - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"A well-known agro-chemical dealer in Lafiagi, Edu Local Government Area of Kwara State, simply identified as Alhaji Chem ...\" \/>\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\/economy\/agro-chemical-dealer-abducted-in-kwara-community\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Agro-chemical dealer abducted in Kwara community\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A well-known agro-chemical dealer in Lafiagi, Edu Local Government Area of Kwara State, simply identified as Alhaji Chem ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/economy\/agro-chemical-dealer-abducted-in-kwara-community\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-06-30T18:00:41+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-06-30T19:00:19+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/06\/sm_1751297498.047809.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1024\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"577\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/economy\/agro-chemical-dealer-abducted-in-kwara-community#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/economy\/agro-chemical-dealer-abducted-in-kwara-community\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Agro-chemical dealer abducted in Kwara community\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-06-30T18:00:41+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-06-30T19:00:19+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/economy\/agro-chemical-dealer-abducted-in-kwara-community\"},\"wordCount\":233,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/economy\/agro-chemical-dealer-abducted-in-kwara-community#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/06\/sm_1751297498.047809.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Kwara\",\"Nigeria\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Economy\",\"head lines\",\"homepage-english\",\"to-homepage\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/economy\/agro-chemical-dealer-abducted-in-kwara-community#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/economy\/agro-chemical-dealer-abducted-in-kwara-community\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/economy\/agro-chemical-dealer-abducted-in-kwara-community\",\"name\":\"Agro-chemical dealer abducted in Kwara community - 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