{"id":245972,"date":"2026-09-29T22:00:20","date_gmt":"2026-09-29T20:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-reps-demand-urgent-rescue-of-116-abducted-schoolchildren-others-in-borno\/"},"modified":"2026-09-29T22:00:20","modified_gmt":"2026-09-29T20:00:20","slug":"nigeria-reps-demand-urgent-rescue-of-116-abducted-schoolchildren-others-in-borno","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-reps-demand-urgent-rescue-of-116-abducted-schoolchildren-others-in-borno\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: Reps Demand Urgent Rescue of 116 Abducted Schoolchildren, Others in Borno"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"35\">Abuja \u2014 The House of Representatives has called for intensified and coordinated security operations to secure the immediate and safe release of 116 schoolchildren abducted in different communities in Borno State, alongside other victims still in captivity.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"38\">The call followed a motion of urgent public importance moved by Rep. Midala Balami on the floor of the House, drawing attention to the prolonged captivity of the victims abducted in Mussa, Lassa and along the Buratai-Maiduguri Road.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">Balami&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202609290513.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>Abuja \u2014 The House of Representatives has called for intensified and coordinated security operations to secure the immediate and safe release of 116 schoolchildren abducted in different communities in Borno State, alongside other victims still in captivity. The call followed a motion of urgent public importance moved by Rep. Midala Balami on the floor of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":245973,"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":[3271,258,256,375,7617,257,4687,393,12110,10904,32785,254,11318],"class_list":["post-245972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-abducted","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-borno","tag-demand","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-reps","tag-rescue","tag-schoolchildren","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\/245972","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=245972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245972\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/245973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}