{"id":173565,"date":"2025-08-11T22:05:51","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T21:05:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/security-operatives-arrest-suspects-in-aaua-kidnapping"},"modified":"2025-08-11T23:15:36","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T22:15:36","slug":"security-operatives-arrest-suspects-in-aaua-kidnapping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/security-operatives-arrest-suspects-in-aaua-kidnapping","title":{"rendered":"Security Operatives Arrest Suspects in AAUA Kidnapping"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>Security operatives have arrested three suspected kidnappers allegedly involved in the abduction of two senior officials of Adekunle Ajasin University Akungba-Akoko AAUA, Ondo State, a few days ago.<\/p>\n<p>The suspects were nabbed a few hours after the release of Omoniyi Eleyinmi, the faculty officer of the institution\u2019s Faculty of Education, who was said to have paid an undisclosed ransom prior to his freedom.<\/p>\n<p>Eleyinmi was abducted alongside a staff of the university last Monday at his residence at Supare Akoko, Akoko South West Local Government Area of the state.<\/p>\n<p>Following his abduction, the suspected kidnappers initially demanded the payment of N100 million but was later reduced to N7 million ransom.<\/p>\n<p>Sources revealed that the kidnappers were nabbed in a forest within the axis of Oba Akoko and Owo following intel received by detectives in the state.<\/p>\n<p>While confirming the arrest, the Police Public Relations Officer in the state, Olayinka Ayanlade, disclosed that the arrested suspects are currently undergoing interrogation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI can confirm to you that our operatives arrested three suspected kidnappers in connection with the kidnapping of 2 AAUA lecturer.<\/p>\n<p>The suspects are currently undergoing profiling and interrogation.\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. Security operatives have arrested three suspected kidnappers allegedly involved in the abduction of two senior officials of Adekunle Ajasin University Akungba-Akoko AAUA, Ondo State, a few days ago. The suspects were nabbed a few hours after the release of Omoniyi Eleyinmi, the faculty officer of the institution\u2019s Faculty of Education, who was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":173564,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[2004,138,254],"class_list":["post-173565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-aaua","tag-kidnap","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>Security Operatives Arrest Suspects in AAUA Kidnapping - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Security operatives have arrested three suspected kidnappers allegedly involved in the abduction of two senior officials ...\" \/>\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\/policy\/security-operatives-arrest-suspects-in-aaua-kidnapping\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Security Operatives Arrest Suspects in AAUA Kidnapping\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Security operatives have arrested three suspected kidnappers allegedly involved in the abduction of two senior officials ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/security-operatives-arrest-suspects-in-aaua-kidnapping\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-08-11T21:05:51+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-08-11T22:15:36+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/08\/sm_1754938093.24682.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1280\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"720\" \/>\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\/policy\/security-operatives-arrest-suspects-in-aaua-kidnapping#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/security-operatives-arrest-suspects-in-aaua-kidnapping\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Security Operatives Arrest Suspects in AAUA Kidnapping\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-08-11T21:05:51+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-08-11T22:15:36+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/security-operatives-arrest-suspects-in-aaua-kidnapping\"},\"wordCount\":207,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/security-operatives-arrest-suspects-in-aaua-kidnapping#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/08\/sm_1754938093.24682.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"AAUA\",\"Kidnap\",\"Nigeria\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/security-operatives-arrest-suspects-in-aaua-kidnapping#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/security-operatives-arrest-suspects-in-aaua-kidnapping\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/security-operatives-arrest-suspects-in-aaua-kidnapping\",\"name\":\"Security Operatives Arrest Suspects in AAUA Kidnapping - Nigeria\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/security-operatives-arrest-suspects-in-aaua-kidnapping#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/security-operatives-arrest-suspects-in-aaua-kidnapping#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/08\/sm_1754938093.24682.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-08-11T21:05:51+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-08-11T22:15:36+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"description\":\"Security operatives have arrested three suspected kidnappers allegedly involved in the abduction of two senior officials ...\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/security-operatives-arrest-suspects-in-aaua-kidnapping#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/security-operatives-arrest-suspects-in-aaua-kidnapping\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/security-operatives-arrest-suspects-in-aaua-kidnapping#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/08\/sm_1754938093.24682.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/08\/sm_1754938093.24682.jpg\",\"width\":1280,\"height\":720,\"caption\":\"Security Operatives Arrest Suspects in AAUA Kidnapping\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/security-operatives-arrest-suspects-in-aaua-kidnapping#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Security Operatives Arrest Suspects in AAUA Kidnapping\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/\",\"name\":\"Africa Press | Nigeria | Homepage\",\"description\":\"Just another Africa News Agency Sites site\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\",\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/author\/cfeditoren\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Security Operatives Arrest Suspects in AAUA Kidnapping - Nigeria","description":"Security operatives have arrested three suspected kidnappers allegedly involved in the abduction of two senior officials ...","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/security-operatives-arrest-suspects-in-aaua-kidnapping","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Security Operatives Arrest Suspects in AAUA Kidnapping","og_description":"Security operatives have arrested three suspected kidnappers allegedly involved in the abduction of two senior officials ...","og_url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/security-operatives-arrest-suspects-in-aaua-kidnapping","og_site_name":"Nigeria","article_published_time":"2025-08-11T21:05:51+00:00","article_modified_time":"2025-08-11T22:15:36+00:00","og_image":[{"width":1280,"height":720,"url":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/08\/sm_1754938093.24682.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"cfeditoren","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"cfeditoren","Est. reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/security-operatives-arrest-suspects-in-aaua-kidnapping#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/security-operatives-arrest-suspects-in-aaua-kidnapping"},"author":{"name":"cfeditoren","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb"},"headline":"Security Operatives Arrest Suspects in AAUA Kidnapping","datePublished":"2025-08-11T21:05:51+00:00","dateModified":"2025-08-11T22:15:36+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/security-operatives-arrest-suspects-in-aaua-kidnapping"},"wordCount":207,"commentCount":0,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/security-operatives-arrest-suspects-in-aaua-kidnapping#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/08\/sm_1754938093.24682.jpg","keywords":["AAUA","Kidnap","Nigeria"],"articleSection":["all news","Policy"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/security-operatives-arrest-suspects-in-aaua-kidnapping#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/security-operatives-arrest-suspects-in-aaua-kidnapping","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/security-operatives-arrest-suspects-in-aaua-kidnapping","name":"Security Operatives Arrest Suspects in AAUA Kidnapping - Nigeria","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/security-operatives-arrest-suspects-in-aaua-kidnapping#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/security-operatives-arrest-suspects-in-aaua-kidnapping#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/08\/sm_1754938093.24682.jpg","datePublished":"2025-08-11T21:05:51+00:00","dateModified":"2025-08-11T22:15:36+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb"},"description":"Security operatives have arrested three suspected kidnappers allegedly involved in the abduction of two senior officials ...","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/security-operatives-arrest-suspects-in-aaua-kidnapping#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/security-operatives-arrest-suspects-in-aaua-kidnapping"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/security-operatives-arrest-suspects-in-aaua-kidnapping#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/08\/sm_1754938093.24682.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/08\/sm_1754938093.24682.jpg","width":1280,"height":720,"caption":"Security Operatives Arrest Suspects in AAUA Kidnapping"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/security-operatives-arrest-suspects-in-aaua-kidnapping#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Security Operatives Arrest Suspects in AAUA Kidnapping"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/","name":"Africa Press | Nigeria | Homepage","description":"Just another Africa News Agency Sites site","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb","name":"cfeditoren","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/author\/cfeditoren"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173565\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/173564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}