{"id":226459,"date":"2026-03-09T13:10:24","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T11:10:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigerias-failing-road-transport-system-leaves-commuters-at-the-mercy-of-robbers\/"},"modified":"2026-03-09T13:10:24","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T11:10:24","slug":"nigerias-failing-road-transport-system-leaves-commuters-at-the-mercy-of-robbers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigerias-failing-road-transport-system-leaves-commuters-at-the-mercy-of-robbers\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria&#8217;s Failing Road Transport System Leaves Commuters At the Mercy of Robbers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"36\">Abuja \u2014 Abimbola David still remembers being robbed twice in taxis in Abuja, Nigeria&#8217;s capital. The most recent incident occurred in 2023 when the robbers, who pretended to be passengers, took her belongings while the car was moving.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"47\">This type of crime is common in Abuja and other <a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/one-chance-in-lagos-how-criminal-gangs-rob-city-commuters-216292\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">major cities<\/a> in Nigeria. It is known locally as &#8220;one-chance&#8221;. It has become one of the most frightening security problems in the West African country. Criminals pretend to be taxi drivers or passengers to trick&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202603090360.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>Abuja \u2014 Abimbola David still remembers being robbed twice in taxis in Abuja, Nigeria&#8217;s capital. The most recent incident occurred in 2023 when the robbers, who pretended to be passengers, took her belongings while the car was moving. This type of crime is common in Abuja and other major cities in Nigeria. It is known [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":226460,"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":[258,256,19713,21944,9647,9493,257,393,5761,7414,1840,254,7232,8343],"class_list":["post-226459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-commuters","tag-failing","tag-leaves","tag-mercy","tag-news","tag-nigeria-news","tag-nigerias","tag-road","tag-robbers","tag-south-africa-today","tag-system","tag-transport"],"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\/226459","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=226459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226459\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/226460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}