{"id":25235,"date":"2020-05-17T16:25:17","date_gmt":"2020-05-17T16:25:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/nigeria\/?p=25235"},"modified":"2020-05-17T16:25:17","modified_gmt":"2020-05-17T16:25:17","slug":"gunmen-kidnap-businessman-in-benue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/gunmen-kidnap-businessman-in-benue","title":{"rendered":"Gunmen kidnap businessman in Benue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Africa Press-Nigeria:<\/p>\n<p>The Benue State Police Command in Benue, on Sunday, confirmed the abduction of Mr. Emmanuel Nwankwo, a businessman, from his residence in Makurdi.<\/p>\n<p>The command\u2019s Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), Catherine Anene, who confirmed the incident, told the News Agency of Nigeira (NAN) that the owner of Emchony Electricals was abducted by unknown gunmen on Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p>She said investigation into the matter was in progress with the view to rescue the victim and arrest the perpetrators.<\/p>\n<p>The victim\u2019s neighbour, who preferred anonymity, told NAN that the abductors stormed his house at about 8 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, the gunmen shot sporadically into the air before whisking the businessman away to an unknown destination.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa Press-Nigeria: The Benue State Police Command in Benue, on Sunday, confirmed the abduction of Mr. Emmanuel Nwankwo, a businessman, from his residence in Makurdi. The command\u2019s Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), Catherine Anene, who confirmed the incident, told the News Agency of Nigeira (NAN) that the owner of Emchony Electricals was abducted by unknown [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":25236,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[926,1163],"class_list":["post-25235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-communique","tag-river-benue"],"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>Gunmen kidnap businessman in Benue - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Africa Press-Nigeria:The Benue State Police Command in Benue, on Sunday, confirmed the abduction of Mr. Emmanuel Nwankwo, a\" \/>\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\/all-news\/gunmen-kidnap-businessman-in-benue\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Gunmen kidnap businessman in Benue\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Africa Press-Nigeria:The Benue State Police Command in Benue, on Sunday, confirmed the abduction of Mr. Emmanuel Nwankwo, a\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/gunmen-kidnap-businessman-in-benue\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-05-17T16:25:17+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2020\/05\/kidnap-crime.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=\"alico\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"alico\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/gunmen-kidnap-businessman-in-benue#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/gunmen-kidnap-businessman-in-benue\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"alico\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/50afd2ef4f0e900bd0a176404a8484a7\"},\"headline\":\"Gunmen kidnap businessman in Benue\",\"datePublished\":\"2020-05-17T16:25:17+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/gunmen-kidnap-businessman-in-benue\"},\"wordCount\":123,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/gunmen-kidnap-businessman-in-benue#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2020\/05\/kidnap-crime.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"communique\",\"River Benue\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/gunmen-kidnap-businessman-in-benue#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/gunmen-kidnap-businessman-in-benue\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/gunmen-kidnap-businessman-in-benue\",\"name\":\"Gunmen kidnap businessman in Benue - 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