{"id":57123,"date":"2024-03-21T06:02:44","date_gmt":"2024-03-21T06:02:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=57123"},"modified":"2024-03-21T06:02:44","modified_gmt":"2024-03-21T06:02:44","slug":"nigerias-kidnap-crisis-inside-story-of-a-nigerian-ransom-negotiator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2024\/03\/21\/nigerias-kidnap-crisis-inside-story-of-a-nigerian-ransom-negotiator\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria&#8217;s kidnap crisis: Inside story of a Nigerian ransom negotiator"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-56919\" src=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/nigeria-kidnapping-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/nigeria-kidnapping-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/nigeria-kidnapping-360x240.jpg 360w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/nigeria-kidnapping.jpg 620w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"dropcap-element-slot\">A <\/span>hostage negotiator has told the BBC that paying ransoms may be illegal, yet it is the only way families can guarantee the release of relatives kidnapped by the gangs terrorising swathes of northern Nigeria.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/news\/world\/inside-story-of-a-nigerian-ransom-negotiator\/ar-BB1kfzXa\"> Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>A hostage negotiator has told the BBC that paying ransoms may be illegal, yet it is the only way families can guarantee&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":57124,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-57123","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Naira.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57123"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57123\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57125,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57123\/revisions\/57125"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}