{"id":197052,"date":"2025-04-29T18:18:03","date_gmt":"2025-04-29T16:18:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-police-raid-shops-arrest-suspected-drug-dealers-in-bauchi\/"},"modified":"2025-04-29T18:18:03","modified_gmt":"2025-04-29T16:18:03","slug":"nigeria-police-raid-shops-arrest-suspected-drug-dealers-in-bauchi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-police-raid-shops-arrest-suspected-drug-dealers-in-bauchi\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: Police Raid Shops, Arrest Suspected Drug Dealers in Bauchi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">The police said they aimed at disrupting drug trafficking in Unguwar Tudun Wadan Dan&#8217;iya, also known as Bayan Gari, in the metropolitan area of Bauchi.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\">The <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/npf.gov.ng\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">police<\/a><\/strong> in Bauchi State have arrested five suspected drug dealers at the Tudun Wadan Dan&#8217;iya area of the Bauchi metropolis.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">The police spokesperson in the state, Ahmed Wakil, said the suspects &#8220;were discovered with a notable quantity of prohibited substances&#8221; peddling them in their shops.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"36\">In a statement he issued on Monday, Mr Wakil said the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202504290359.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 police said they aimed at disrupting drug trafficking in Unguwar Tudun Wadan Dan&#8217;iya, also known as Bayan Gari, in the metropolitan area of Bauchi. The police in Bauchi State have arrested five suspected drug dealers at the Tudun Wadan Dan&#8217;iya area of the Bauchi metropolis. The police spokesperson in the state, Ahmed Wakil, said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":197053,"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":[258,256,6414,1806,17100,6949,257,4687,393,662,6828,10218,254,7846],"class_list":["post-197052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-arrest","tag-bauchi","tag-dealers","tag-drug","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-police","tag-raid","tag-shops","tag-south-africa-today","tag-suspected"],"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\/197052","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=197052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197052\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/197053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}