{"id":84790,"date":"2026-02-25T07:30:26","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T02:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/nigeria-denies-report-it-paid-huge-ransom-to-free-pupils-in-mass-abduction\/"},"modified":"2026-02-25T07:30:26","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T02:00:26","slug":"nigeria-denies-report-it-paid-huge-ransom-to-free-pupils-in-mass-abduction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/nigeria-denies-report-it-paid-huge-ransom-to-free-pupils-in-mass-abduction\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria denies report it paid &#8216;huge&#8217; ransom to free pupils in mass abduction"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"nqenglish-card-frame\">\n<div class=\"nqenglish-img-wrapper\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/1024\/branded_news\/323e\/live\/49d91f20-11a8-11f1-9120-a910fc22c6ac.jpg\" alt=\"Nigeria denies report it paid &#039;huge&#039; ransom to free pupils in mass abduction\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" style=\"object-fit:cover\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"nqenglish-cat lang-en\">\u090f\u0928 \u0936\u0949\u0930\u094d\u091f\u094d\u0938'<\/div>\n<div class=\"nqenglish-headline\">Nigeria denies report it paid &#039;huge&#039; ransom to free pupils in mass abduction<\/div>\n<div class=\"nqenglish-summary\">The rebuttal was followed by news the police chief was resigning a year before the end of his term.<\/div>\n<div class=\"nqenglish-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/cewzyqjq2ygo?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read Full Story<\/a><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"nqenglish-disclaimer\">Technically enhanced content presented under fair use in public-interest journalism.<\/span><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>N Shorts Nigeria denies report it paid &#039;huge&#039; ransom to free pupils in mass abduction The rebuttal was<\/p>","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":84791,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"googlesitekit_rrm_CAowl-PACw:productID":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2149],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-shorts-en"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84790"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84790\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}