{"id":212393,"date":"2025-11-03T13:14:56","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T11:14:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-federal-govt-condemns-abduction-of-neurosurgeon-calls-for-urgent-rescue\/"},"modified":"2025-11-03T13:14:56","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T11:14:56","slug":"nigeria-federal-govt-condemns-abduction-of-neurosurgeon-calls-for-urgent-rescue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-federal-govt-condemns-abduction-of-neurosurgeon-calls-for-urgent-rescue\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: Federal Govt Condemns Abduction of Neurosurgeon, Calls for Urgent Rescue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">Mr Mbanugo was kidnapped by unknown gunmen on Thursday, 30 October 2025Mr Mbanugo was kidnapped by unknown gunmen on Thursday, 30 October 2025<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\">The Federal Ministry of Health and Social Welfare has expressed deep concern over the abduction of Tochukwu Mbanugo, a consultant neurosurgeon with the Nnamdi Azikiwe University Teaching Hospital (NAUTH), Nnewi, Anambra State.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"40\">According to a statement signed by Iziaq Salako on Sunday, Mr Mbanugo was kidnapped by unknown gunmen on Thursday, 30 October 2025,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202511030335.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>Mr Mbanugo was kidnapped by unknown gunmen on Thursday, 30 October 2025Mr Mbanugo was kidnapped by unknown gunmen on Thursday, 30 October 2025 The Federal Ministry of Health and Social Welfare has expressed deep concern over the abduction of Tochukwu Mbanugo, a consultant neurosurgeon with the Nnamdi Azikiwe University Teaching Hospital (NAUTH), Nnewi, Anambra State. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":212394,"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":[4306,258,256,6137,7610,8731,4357,9511,257,4687,393,10904,254,11318],"class_list":["post-212393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-abduction","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-calls","tag-condemns","tag-federal","tag-govt","tag-neurosurgeon","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-rescue","tag-south-africa-today","tag-urgent"],"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\/212393","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=212393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212393\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/212394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}