{"id":41702,"date":"2026-08-06T11:45:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T09:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=41702"},"modified":"2026-08-06T11:45:15","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T09:45:15","slug":"nigerian-forces-rescue-308-kidnap-victims-presidency","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/nigerian-forces-rescue-308-kidnap-victims-presidency\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigerian forces rescue 308 kidnap victims: Presidency"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Nigerian security forces have rescued 308 people abducted in separate attacks in northern \u200bNiger and Kwara states, in what President Bola \u200cTinubu described as the largest same-day rescue operation carried out by a joint security team.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">The presidency said in a statement \u200blate on Wednesday that 163 of those rescued \u200bhad been abducted from Woro community in Kwara&#8217;s \u2060Kaiama district and another 145 from neighbouring Niger \u200bstate.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">The victims in Kwara had been in captivity since \u200bFebruary after gunmen attacked their community and killed at least 170 others in one of the most deadly attacks by gunmen this \u200byear.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">All the victims were freed from the Kainji Lake \u200bNational Park forest in Niger state following an operation involving the \u200carmed \u2060forces, intelligence agency and police, the statement added.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">The presidency did not say whether any suspects were apprehended during the operation.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Nigeria is struggling to curb kidnappings and \u200barmed attacks that \u200bhave plagued \u2060parts of the country for years, undermining security, disrupting livelihoods and raising pressure on \u200bthe government of Tinubu, who is seeking \u200bre-election \u2060for a second and final term in January.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Tinubu on Tuesday approved pay rises of up to 80% for members \u2060of \u200bthe armed forces, part of efforts \u200bto boost the morale and welfare of troops at the forefront of \u200bfighting insecurity.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">&#8211;Reuters&#8211;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":33623,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[26],"class_list":["post-41702","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"","published_date":"","news_description":"","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/41702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/41702\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41703,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/41702\/revisions\/41703"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=41702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}