{"id":193014,"date":"2025-03-07T03:27:44","date_gmt":"2025-03-07T01:27:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-police-arrest-2-pakistanis-for-kidnapping-48-yr-old-man-in-lagos\/"},"modified":"2025-03-07T03:27:44","modified_gmt":"2025-03-07T01:27:44","slug":"nigeria-police-arrest-2-pakistanis-for-kidnapping-48-yr-old-man-in-lagos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-police-arrest-2-pakistanis-for-kidnapping-48-yr-old-man-in-lagos\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: Police Arrest 2 Pakistanis for Kidnapping 48-Yr-Old Man in Lagos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"5\"><em>*Five others on the run<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">Two Pakistani nationals, Roman Gull, 28, and Aftab Ahmad, 19, have been arrested for allegedly masterminding the kidnapping of a 48-year-old Pakistani man in the Ikeja area of Lagos.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">According to spokesman for the Lagos State Police Command, CSP Benjamin Hundeyin, the suspects, along with five others, lured the victim to Lagos from Kano with a fake job offer as a chef.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"19\">The suspects, reportedly booked the victim&#8217;s flight to Lagos and lodged him in a hotel on February 28,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202503060520.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>*Five others on the run Two Pakistani nationals, Roman Gull, 28, and Aftab Ahmad, 19, have been arrested for allegedly masterminding the kidnapping of a 48-year-old Pakistani man in the Ikeja area of Lagos. According to spokesman for the Lagos State Police Command, CSP Benjamin Hundeyin, the suspects, along with five others, lured the victim [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":193015,"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":[50799,258,256,6414,1457,2477,6867,257,4687,393,50798,662,254],"class_list":["post-193014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-48yrold","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-arrest","tag-kidnapping","tag-lagos","tag-man","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-pakistanis","tag-police","tag-south-africa-today"],"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\/193014","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=193014"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193014\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}