{"id":226193,"date":"2026-03-06T13:00:35","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T11:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-army-probes-alleged-child-abuse-in-kontagora-cantonment\/"},"modified":"2026-03-06T13:00:35","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T11:00:35","slug":"nigeria-army-probes-alleged-child-abuse-in-kontagora-cantonment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-army-probes-alleged-child-abuse-in-kontagora-cantonment\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: Army Probes Alleged Child Abuse in Kontagora Cantonment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">The Nigerian Army Training Centre (NATRAC) has commenced investigation into an alleged case of child abuse reported on Wednesday, 4 March 2026, at the Kontagora Military Cantonment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"37\">A statement by the Assistant Director, Army Public Relations Nigerian Army Training Centre, Major Godfrey Abakpa said a neighbouring soldier reportedly heard the distress cries of a child emanating from an adjoining apartment and alerted the authorities.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">He said the soldier upon gaining access to the residence,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202603060307.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 Nigerian Army Training Centre (NATRAC) has commenced investigation into an alleged case of child abuse reported on Wednesday, 4 March 2026, at the Kontagora Military Cantonment. A statement by the Assistant Director, Army Public Relations Nigerian Army Training Centre, Major Godfrey Abakpa said a neighbouring soldier reportedly heard the distress cries of a child [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":226194,"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":[5099,258,256,4305,4361,53836,8438,39860,257,4687,393,8939,254],"class_list":["post-226193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-abuse","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-alleged","tag-army","tag-cantonment","tag-child","tag-kontagora","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-probes","tag-south-africa-today"],"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\/226193","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=226193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226193\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/226194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}