{"id":3477,"date":"2014-07-02T09:58:14","date_gmt":"2014-07-02T02:58:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/?p=3477"},"modified":"2014-07-02T09:58:24","modified_gmt":"2014-07-02T02:58:24","slug":"military-nabs-abductor-of-chibok-schoolgirls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/military-nabs-abductor-of-chibok-schoolgirls\/","title":{"rendered":"Military nabs abductor of Chibok schoolgirls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ABUJA &#8211; Almost three months after Boko Haram terrorists abducted more than 200 schoolgirls in Chibok, Borno State, the military announced, yesterday, that it has arrested one of the sect\u2019s leaders, who was one of the abductors.<\/p>\n<p>This came on a day the sect members bombed a Divisional Police Headquarters in Shani Local Government Area of Borno State and also attacked an emir\u2019s palace.<\/p>\n<p>The alleged abductor of the Chibok girls, whose name was given as Babuji Ya\u2019ari, was also said to have led the attack in which the Emir of Gwoza, Alh. Idriss Timta, was killed a few weeks ago.<\/p>\n<p>The Director of Defence Information, Maj. Gen. Chris Olukolade, disclosed in a statement issued in Abuja, yesterday, that Ya\u2019ari doubled as member of the Youth Vigilante Group, popularly known as Civilian JTF&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Nigeria News\" href=\"http:\/\/www.vanguardngr.com\/2014\/07\/military-nabs-abductor-chibok-girls\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>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<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ABUJA &#8211; Almost three months after Boko Haram terrorists abducted more than 200 schoolgirls in Chibok, Borno State, the military announced, yesterday, that it has arrested one of the sect\u2019s leaders, who was one of the abductors. This came on a day the sect members bombed a Divisional Police Headquarters in Shani Local Government Area [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[1971,1972,258,256,1973,355,1970,413,1974,257,4687,393,254,1775,4692,1976,1975],"class_list":["post-3477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-abducted-more-than-200-schoolgirls-in-chibok","tag-abducted-schoolgirls-in-chibok","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-babuji-yaari","tag-boko-haram","tag-boko-haram-terrorists","tag-borno-state","tag-jtf","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-terrorists","tag-west-africa","tag-yaari-doubled-as-member-of-the-youth-vigilante-group","tag-youth-vigilante-group"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3477","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3477\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}