{"id":178912,"date":"2024-08-20T22:19:20","date_gmt":"2024-08-20T20:19:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-concern-for-the-fate-of-the-20-medical-students-abducted-on-august-15\/"},"modified":"2024-08-20T22:19:20","modified_gmt":"2024-08-20T20:19:20","slug":"nigeria-concern-for-the-fate-of-the-20-medical-students-abducted-on-august-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-concern-for-the-fate-of-the-20-medical-students-abducted-on-august-15\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: Concern for the Fate of the 20 Medical Students Abducted On August 15"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"49\">Abuja \u2014 Still no news of the 20 medical students abducted on August 15th in Benue State, in east-central Nigeria. The students were en route to the annual national congress held by the Federation of Catholic Medical and Dental Students (FECAMDS) when they were intercepted by armed bandits along the way.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">News of the kidnapping was divulged by FECAMDS in a statement signed by the federation&#8217;s National President Ige Gabriel Ariyo, and its National Secretary General, Mary Rose Malomo.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"38\">&#8220;On August 15,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202408200504.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Nigeria\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/nigeria\/\">Nigeria<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abuja \u2014 Still no news of the 20 medical students abducted on August 15th in Benue State, in east-central Nigeria. The students were en route to the annual national congress held by the Federation of Catholic Medical and Dental Students (FECAMDS) when they were intercepted by armed bandits along the way. News of the kidnapping [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":178913,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[3271,258,256,8060,7167,13170,7417,257,4687,393,254,6695],"class_list":["post-178912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-abducted","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-august","tag-concern","tag-fate","tag-medical","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-students"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178912\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/178913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}