{"id":237961,"date":"2012-12-10T06:29:00","date_gmt":"2012-12-10T06:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2012\/12\/nigeria-kidnappers-seize-okonjo-iwealas-mother\/"},"modified":"2012-12-10T06:29:00","modified_gmt":"2012-12-10T06:29:00","slug":"nigeria-kidnappers-seize-okonjo-iwealas-mother","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2012\/12\/10\/nigeria-kidnappers-seize-okonjo-iwealas-mother\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: Kidnappers Seize  Okonjo-Iweala&#8217;s Mother"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div class=\"figure picture inset right\" readability=\"7.13513513514\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00171663%3A0a9e0a883dae39833adb0ae870092dd6%3Aarc614x376%3Aw290%3Aus1.jpg\" width=\"290\" height=\"177\" \/><span class=\"credit right\">Photo: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thisdayonline.com\/\">This Day<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The new Nigerian finance minister, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Mother of the Minister of Finance, Dr. Mrs. Ngozi Okonjo Iweala was on Sunday abducted from the palace of the traditional ruler of Ogwashi-uku, Delta State, Obi (Prof.) Chukwuka Okonjo.<\/p>\n<p>The 82-year-old Professor Kanene Okonjon, the queen mother of Ogwashi-uku was abducted at about 1:47pm by a gang of armed men who seized her at the gate of the palace at Ogbe-ofu and took her away.<\/p>\n<p>However, the police have arrested a man who allegedly left the compound few minutes before the incident took place.<\/p>\n<p>The man was said to have informed the housemaid that he was in the palace to take the queen mother to somewhere in the town.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo: This Day The new Nigerian finance minister, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala. Mother of the Minister of Finance, Dr. Mrs. Ngozi Okonjo Iweala was on Sunday abducted from the palace of the traditional ruler of Ogwashi-uku, Delta State, Obi (Prof.) Chukwuka Okonjo. The 82-year-old Professor Kanene Okonjon, the queen mother of Ogwashi-uku was abducted at about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-237961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-business"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Nigeria: Kidnappers Seize Okonjo-Iweala&#039;s Mother - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2012\/12\/10\/nigeria-kidnappers-seize-okonjo-iwealas-mother\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Nigeria: Kidnappers Seize Okonjo-Iweala&#039;s Mother - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Photo: This Day The new Nigerian finance minister, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala. 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