{"id":202966,"date":"2026-01-06T19:48:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T19:48:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=202966"},"modified":"2026-01-06T19:48:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T19:48:14","slug":"kidnappers-abduct-18-passengers-on-benin-akure-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=202966","title":{"rendered":"Kidnappers Abduct 18 Passengers on Benin\u2013Akure Road\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AFRICAN EXAMINER) \u2013 Kidnappers have abducted 18 passengers along the Benin\u2013Akure highway near Obarenren village in Ovia North East Local Government Area of Edo State. The incident reportedly occurred last Saturday when the assailants, who were said to have fired sporadically, stopped an 18-seater commercial bus and forced the passengers into the surrounding bush&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.africanexaminer.com\/kidnappers-abduct-18-passengers-on-benin-akure-road\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AFRICAN EXAMINER) \u2013 Kidnappers have abducted 18 passengers along the Benin\u2013Akure highway near Obarenren village<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":202967,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-202966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-africa"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/202966-kidnappers-abduct-18-passengers-on-benin-akure-road.jpg",420,303,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/202966-kidnappers-abduct-18-passengers-on-benin-akure-road-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/202966-kidnappers-abduct-18-passengers-on-benin-akure-road-300x216.jpg",300,216,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/202966-kidnappers-abduct-18-passengers-on-benin-akure-road.jpg",420,303,false],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/202966-kidnappers-abduct-18-passengers-on-benin-akure-road.jpg",420,303,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/202966-kidnappers-abduct-18-passengers-on-benin-akure-road.jpg",420,303,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/202966-kidnappers-abduct-18-passengers-on-benin-akure-road.jpg",420,303,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/202966-kidnappers-abduct-18-passengers-on-benin-akure-road.jpg",420,303,false],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/202966-kidnappers-abduct-18-passengers-on-benin-akure-road.jpg",420,303,false],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/202966-kidnappers-abduct-18-passengers-on-benin-akure-road.jpg",420,303,false]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=40\" rel=\"category\">Africa<\/a>","tag_info":"Africa","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=202966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202966\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/202967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=202966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=202966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=202966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}