{"id":21352,"date":"2026-04-09T17:15:21","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T17:15:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/?p=21352"},"modified":"2026-04-09T17:20:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T17:20:15","slug":"photo-news-released-saudi-detained-pilgrims-visit-ndlea-boss-marwa-to-appreciate-intervention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/2026\/04\/09\/photo-news-released-saudi-detained-pilgrims-visit-ndlea-boss-marwa-to-appreciate-intervention\/","title":{"rendered":"Photo News: Released Saudi-Detained Pilgrims Visit NDLEA Boss Marwa to Appreciate Intervention"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>L\u2013R: Alhaja Abdullahi Bahijja Aminu; Chairman\/Chief Executive Officer of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), Brig. Gen. Mohamed Buba Marwa (Rtd); Alhaji Baffa Abdullahi; and Alhaja Maryam Hussain Abdullahi, when Abdullahi led two of the three Nigerian pilgrims who were detained in the Saudi Arabia over illicit drugs smuggled into their luggage by a syndicate, but were later released by Saudi authorities following multi-stakeholder efforts coordinated by the NDLEA, to thank Marwa for the life-saving intervention at the agency\u2019s National Headquarters in Abuja on Thursday, April 9, 2026.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-21354 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/3d95b017-7fc1-481c-b8ce-6524dc35684b-300x200.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/3d95b017-7fc1-481c-b8ce-6524dc35684b-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/3d95b017-7fc1-481c-b8ce-6524dc35684b-1024x683.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/3d95b017-7fc1-481c-b8ce-6524dc35684b-768x512.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/3d95b017-7fc1-481c-b8ce-6524dc35684b-640x427.jpeg 640w, https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/3d95b017-7fc1-481c-b8ce-6524dc35684b.jpeg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>L\u2013R: Alhaja Abdullahi Bahijja Aminu; Chairman\/Chief Executive Officer of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), Brig. Gen. Mohamed Buba<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21356,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-from-the-grassroots"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21352"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21352\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21357,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21352\/revisions\/21357"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}