{"id":157658,"date":"2019-10-04T17:32:21","date_gmt":"2019-10-04T16:32:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=157658"},"modified":"2019-10-05T12:42:30","modified_gmt":"2019-10-05T11:42:30","slug":"another-nigerian-professor-kidnapped-in-ondo-kidnappers-demand-n20-million-ransom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=157658","title":{"rendered":"Another Nigerian Professor Kidnapped In Ondo, Kidnappers Demand N20-Million Ransom"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><span class=\"ds-1col file file-image file-image-jpeg view-mode-embedded centered clearfix block-story-object block-story-object-resource block-story-object-resource-image\"><br \/>\n<span class=\"block-story-object-asset\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"media-element file-embedded\" typeof=\"foaf:Image\" src=\"http:\/\/arewa.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/NUT-Banditry-Creating-Wide-Gap-In-Education-Between-North-And-South.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/span><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"container container-pod container-pod-short\"><span class=\"adunit-parent hide block-module block-module-ad block-module-ad-300x250\"><span class=\"block-module-image-wrapper\"><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Prof. Valentine Aleto, a former acting Vice-Chancellor of the<br \/>\nUniversity of Africa (UAT), Toru-Orua in Bayelsa State has been<br \/>\nkidnapped.<\/p>\n<p>He was kidnapped in Ondo State.<\/p>\n<p>SaharaReporters learnt that his abductors had demanded N20 million.<\/p>\n<p>Aleto, who was seized by gunmen on Elegbeka\/Ipele road in Ose Local<br \/>\nGovernment in Ondo, was coming from Yenagoa in Bayelsa in his private<br \/>\nvehicle.<\/p>\n<p>His kidnap came barely a few weeks after Prof. Gideon Okedayo, a<br \/>\nsenior lecturer at the Ondo State University of Science and Technology<br \/>\n(OSUSTECH), Okitipupa, was kidnapped and later found dead in Edo<br \/>\nState.<\/p>\n<p>A security source told SaharaReporters today (Friday) that Aleto was<br \/>\nabducted about 6 pm on the bad portion of Elegbeka road.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We got the name of the victim to be one Prof. Valentine Aleto, from<br \/>\nBayelsa State and he was kidnapped while driving in his private<br \/>\nvehicle on the Elegbeka road,&#8221; the source said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Just this morning we learned that the abductors are already demanding<br \/>\nN20 million ransom from his family before they can release him.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>SaharaReporters gathered that Alero&#8217;s vehicle was recovered at the<br \/>\nscene where the kidnap took place.<\/p>\n<p>The car was moved to a police station in Ifon.<\/p>\n<p>Spokesman for the police in Ondo, Femi Joseph, said, &#8220;It is true that<br \/>\none professor travelling in his personal car was reportedly kidnapped<br \/>\non that road but we have started our investigations into the<br \/>\nincident.&#8221;<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prof. Valentine Aleto, a former acting Vice-Chancellor of the University of Africa (UAT), Toru-Orua in Bayelsa State has been kidnapped. He was kidnapped in Ondo State. SaharaReporters learnt that his abductors had demanded N20 million. Aleto, who was seized by gunmen on Elegbeka\/Ipele road in Ose Local Government in Ondo, was coming from Yenagoa in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":113730,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3773,1,3],"tags":[11480,27,4866,11811,6812],"class_list":["post-157658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","category-more","category-news","tag-nigeria-2","tag-27","tag-crime","tag-kidnapped","tag-professor"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=157658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157658\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/113730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=157658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=157658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=157658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}