{"id":78790,"date":"2025-08-27T08:28:52","date_gmt":"2025-08-27T08:28:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=78790"},"modified":"2025-08-27T08:28:52","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T08:28:52","slug":"kidnap-for-ransom-industry-costs-nigeria-n2-56bn-in-one-year-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2025\/08\/27\/kidnap-for-ransom-industry-costs-nigeria-n2-56bn-in-one-year-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Kidnap-for-ransom industry costs Nigeria N2.56bn in one year \u2013 Report"},"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 decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.businessday.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Countries-with-the-highest-kidnappings-1.png\" alt=\"Social Listening 27 June 2025: More Nigerians were kidnapped in one year than the populations of 15 countries\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Nigeria\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/businessday.ng\/security\/article\/buratai-urges-nationwide-mobilisation-to-fight-terrorism-banditry-kidnapping\/\">kidnap crisis<\/a> has deepened into a multibillion-naira industry, with at least 4,722 people abducted and B2.56 billion paid in ransom between July 2024 and June 2025, according to a new report by SBM Intelligence. <a href=\"https:\/\/businessday.ng\/news\/article\/kidnap-for-ransom-industry-costs-nigeria-n2-56bn-in-one-year-report\/\">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>Nigeria\u2019s\u00a0kidnap crisis has deepened into a multibillion-naira industry, with at least 4,722 people abducted and B2.56 billion paid in ransom between July&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":64735,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[206],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-78790","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nigeria"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Dr-Ganiyat-kidnapped.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78790","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=78790"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78790\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78791,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78790\/revisions\/78791"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}