{"id":243443,"date":"2026-09-06T08:38:42","date_gmt":"2026-09-06T06:38:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-bandits-release-niger-electoral-commissioner-11-months-after-abduction\/"},"modified":"2026-09-06T08:38:42","modified_gmt":"2026-09-06T06:38:42","slug":"nigeria-bandits-release-niger-electoral-commissioner-11-months-after-abduction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-bandits-release-niger-electoral-commissioner-11-months-after-abduction\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: Bandits Release Niger Electoral Commissioner 11 Months After Abduction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"19\">Mr Wawa recounted a traumatic experience, saying he spent more than 300 days in captivity without taking a bath.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\">A commissioner with the Niger State Independent Electoral Commission (NSIEC), Mohammed Wawa, has regained freedom about 11 months after bandits abducted him.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">Mr Wawa, who hails from Borgu Local Government Area, was reportedly released in the Funtua axis, around the boundary between Katsina and Zamfara states.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n  <span style=\"font-size: 110%;\"><br \/>\nKeep up with the latest headlines on <a href=\"https:\/\/whatsapp.com\/channel\/0029VaIdDi8Bqbr263erhw1K\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">WhatsApp<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/allafrica\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">LinkedIn<\/a><br \/>\n  <\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"19\">A family&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202609040558.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow 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 Wawa recounted a traumatic experience, saying he spent more than 300 days in captivity without taking a bath. A commissioner with the Niger State Independent Electoral Commission (NSIEC), Mohammed Wawa, has regained freedom about 11 months after bandits abducted him. Mr Wawa, who hails from Borgu Local Government Area, was reportedly released in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":243444,"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":[4306,258,256,10216,6350,7239,7061,257,404,4687,393,6011,254],"class_list":["post-243443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-abduction","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-bandits","tag-commissioner","tag-electoral","tag-months","tag-news","tag-niger","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-release","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\/243443","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=243443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243443\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/243444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}