{"id":221437,"date":"2026-01-22T11:22:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T09:22:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-kaduna-governor-visits-community-where-over-100-worshippers-were-kidnapped\/"},"modified":"2026-01-22T11:22:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T09:22:12","slug":"nigeria-kaduna-governor-visits-community-where-over-100-worshippers-were-kidnapped","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-kaduna-governor-visits-community-where-over-100-worshippers-were-kidnapped\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: Kaduna Governor Visits Community Where Over 100 Worshippers Were Kidnapped"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"18\">&#8220;It is the responsibility of the Kaduna State Government to protect the lives and property of the people.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">Governor Uba Sani has promised that his administration, in collaboration with other security agencies, will ensure the safe return of all those who<strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.premiumtimesng.com\/news\/headlines\/850617-163-worshippers-abducted-during-church-service-in-kaduna.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">were abducted in Kurmin Wali village<\/a><\/strong> on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">The governor made this pledge on Wednesday when he led a large delegation of senior government officials and heads of security agencies to commiserate with the people of Kurmin Wali.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n  <span style=\"font-size: 110%;\"><br \/>\nFollow us&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202601220014.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>&#8220;It is the responsibility of the Kaduna State Government to protect the lives and property of the people.&#8221; Governor Uba Sani has promised that his administration, in collaboration with other security agencies, will ensure the safe return of all those who were abducted in Kurmin Wali village on Sunday. The governor made this pledge on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":221438,"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":[258,256,7963,4269,3153,476,257,4687,393,254,7189,16682],"class_list":["post-221437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-community","tag-governor","tag-kaduna","tag-kidnapped","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-visits","tag-worshippers"],"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\/221437","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=221437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221437\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/221438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}