{"id":180510,"date":"2024-09-13T11:20:49","date_gmt":"2024-09-13T09:20:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-troops-nab-notorious-terrorist-kingpin-rescue-kidnapped-victims-in-plateau\/"},"modified":"2024-09-13T11:20:49","modified_gmt":"2024-09-13T09:20:49","slug":"nigeria-troops-nab-notorious-terrorist-kingpin-rescue-kidnapped-victims-in-plateau","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-troops-nab-notorious-terrorist-kingpin-rescue-kidnapped-victims-in-plateau\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: Troops Nab Notorious Terrorist Kingpin, Rescue Kidnapped Victims in Plateau"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">The Nigerian Army said its troops have captured a wanted terrorist kingpin, Husseini Usman, in Ganawuri village, Riyom Local Government Area of Plateau, and rescued kidnapped victims.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">The army, in a post on its official X Handle on Friday, said the troops had sustained decisive and aggressive operations against the terrorists across the nation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">It said the troops also seized weapons and critical logistics used by the terrorists, thereby further tightening the nose on criminal elements hiding in&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202409130083.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>The Nigerian Army said its troops have captured a wanted terrorist kingpin, Husseini Usman, in Ganawuri village, Riyom Local Government Area of Plateau, and rescued kidnapped victims. The army, in a post on its official X Handle on Friday, said the troops had sustained decisive and aggressive operations against the terrorists across the nation. It [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":180511,"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":[258,256,476,17965,11652,257,4687,393,30054,14079,10904,254,671,8515,8402],"class_list":["post-180510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-kidnapped","tag-kingpin","tag-nab","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-notorious","tag-plateau","tag-rescue","tag-south-africa-today","tag-terrorist","tag-troops","tag-victims"],"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\/180510","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=180510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180510\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/180511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}