{"id":203900,"date":"2025-08-03T21:37:50","date_gmt":"2025-08-03T19:37:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-law-school-students-kidnapped-in-benue-regain-freedom\/"},"modified":"2025-08-03T21:37:50","modified_gmt":"2025-08-03T19:37:50","slug":"nigeria-law-school-students-kidnapped-in-benue-regain-freedom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-law-school-students-kidnapped-in-benue-regain-freedom\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: Law School Students Kidnapped in Benue Regain Freedom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"20\"><em>Six of the Nigerian Law School students who were abducted while travelling from Anambra State to Adamawa have regained freedom.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"12\">The Benue Police Command confirmed this in a statement issued on Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\">The Command&#8217;s Police Public Relations Officer, Udeme Edet, said the six law students were heading for the Yola Campus of the Nigerian Law School when they ran into the kidnappers along the Benue-Taraba boundary.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"48\">&#8220;Please be informed that the police have successfully rescued six law students of the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202508010395.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>Six of the Nigerian Law School students who were abducted while travelling from Anambra State to Adamawa have regained freedom. The Benue Police Command confirmed this in a statement issued on Friday. The Command&#8217;s Police Public Relations Officer, Udeme Edet, said the six law students were heading for the Yola Campus of the Nigerian Law [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":203901,"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":[258,256,8937,7636,476,7077,257,4687,393,10237,4362,254,6695],"class_list":["post-203900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-benue","tag-freedom","tag-kidnapped","tag-law","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-regain","tag-school","tag-south-africa-today","tag-students"],"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\/203900","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=203900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203900\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/203901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}