{"id":193772,"date":"2025-03-17T15:50:39","date_gmt":"2025-03-17T13:50:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-lagos-watch-armed-robbers-kidnappers-arrested\/"},"modified":"2025-03-17T15:50:39","modified_gmt":"2025-03-17T13:50:39","slug":"nigeria-lagos-watch-armed-robbers-kidnappers-arrested","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-lagos-watch-armed-robbers-kidnappers-arrested\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: Lagos Watch &#8211; Armed Robbers, Kidnappers Arrested"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"16\">The<strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npf.gov.ng\/lagos\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lagos State Police Command<\/a><\/strong> arrested two suspected armed robbers in Sangotedo, along the Lekki-Epe Expressway.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\">The suspects, identified as Emmanuel Cletus, 32, and Adegor Joshua, 27, were apprehended around 4:00 a.m. during a routine security patrol.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"14\">The police recovered an automatic pistol and five live rounds of ammunition from them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"13\">Confirming the arrest on his X handle, the command&#8217;s spokesperson, Benjamin Hundeyin, stated:<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">&#8220;Officers of the Lagos State Police Command on morning patrol&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202503170479.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 Lagos State Police Command arrested two suspected armed robbers in Sangotedo, along the Lekki-Epe Expressway. The suspects, identified as Emmanuel Cletus, 32, and Adegor Joshua, 27, were apprehended around 4:00 a.m. during a routine security patrol. The police recovered an automatic pistol and five live rounds of ammunition from them. Confirming the arrest on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":193773,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[258,256,9663,4304,1404,2477,257,4687,393,1840,254,10745],"class_list":["post-193772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-armed","tag-arrested","tag-kidnappers","tag-lagos","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-robbers","tag-south-africa-today","tag-watch"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.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\/193772","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=193772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193772\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}