{"id":28194,"date":"2024-04-20T23:00:09","date_gmt":"2024-04-20T23:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/kidnappers-hijack-commercial-bus-abduct-rccg-pastor-14-others-in-oyo\/"},"modified":"2024-04-20T23:00:09","modified_gmt":"2024-04-20T23:00:09","slug":"kidnappers-hijack-commercial-bus-abduct-rccg-pastor-14-others-in-oyo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/kidnappers-hijack-commercial-bus-abduct-rccg-pastor-14-others-in-oyo\/","title":{"rendered":"Kidnappers hijack commercial bus, abduct RCCG pastor, 14 others in Oyo"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>A pastor with Redeemed Christian Church of God, RCCG, identified as Olugbenga Olawore, and other passengers of a 14-seater bus have been kidnapped in Oyo State.<\/p>\n<p>DAILY POST gathered on Saturday that the cleric and other passengers of the bus were abducted on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Sources said that the bus was en route Lagos State.<\/p>\n<p>Olawore is currently a pastor at Heavens Gate Parish, Redeemed Christian Church of God, Lagos Province 73, along Agbara-Lusada Road in Ogun State.<\/p>\n<p>A source told DAILY POST that the incident occurred at Maya axis of Lanlate-Eruwa Road at about 5 pm on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The cleric was returning from Ipapo town where he went to put the final touches on the burial arrangements for his mother.<\/p>\n<p>The burial of the pastor\u2019s mother, Deaconess Deborah Olawore, was said to have been scheduled to commence with a Christian wake next week Friday, April 26, while the burial was slated for Friday, May 3rd.<\/p>\n<p>Police Public Relations Officer of the state police command, SP Adewale Osifeso, confirmed the incident to DAILY POST on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Osifeso in a response to DAILY POST enquiry, said \u201cinvestigation is in progress.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUpdates will be provided accordingly, please\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Kidnappers hijack commercial bus, abduct RCCG pastor, 14 others in Oyo<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A pastor with Redeemed Christian Church of God, RCCG, identified as Olugbenga Olawore, and other passengers of a 14-seater bus&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28195,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[384,15,1084,761],"tags":[764,387,180,1088,762],"class_list":["post-28194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-metro","category-news","category-rccg","category-top-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-metro","tag-news","tag-rccg","tag-top"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28194\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}