{"id":13603,"date":"2026-01-09T16:40:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T16:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/13603\/"},"modified":"2026-01-09T16:40:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T16:40:08","slug":"doctors-suspend-services-in-edo-over-abduction-of-colleagues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/13603\/","title":{"rendered":"Doctors Suspend Services in Edo Over Abduction of Colleagues\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aiir-c-news-figure__image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/6960f129d1da8.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"aiir-c-news-article__abstract\">\n            Doctors in Edo State have suspended medical services across the state following the abduction of two of their colleagues.\n        <\/p>\n<p>The Edo State chapter of the Nigerian Medical Association says the action, which takes effect from Saturday, is in protest against rising insecurity and repeated attacks on health workers.<\/p>\n<p>According to the News Agency of Nigeria, NMA Chairman in the state, Dr. Eustace Oseghale, says doctors can no longer guarantee their safety while carrying out their duties.<\/p>\n<p>He says the kidnappings, which occurred on January 1 and 2, have heightened fear among medical practitioners.<br \/>One of the abducted doctors, Dr. Babatunde Abu, was kidnapped in Auchi, with abductors reportedly demanding a one-hundred-million-naira ransom.<\/p>\n<p>The association says it will not resume services until the abducted doctors are released and concrete security measures are put in place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Doctors in Edo State have suspended medical services across the state following the abduction of two of their&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13604,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[6569,1028,311,6568,122,6567,264],"class_list":{"0":"post-13603","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nigeria","8":"tag-conversation","9":"tag-current-affairs","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-lets-talk","12":"tag-nigeria","13":"tag-nigeria-info-fm","14":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13603\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}