{"id":127576,"date":"2021-12-31T06:41:04","date_gmt":"2021-12-31T05:41:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/?p=127576"},"modified":"2021-12-31T06:41:04","modified_gmt":"2021-12-31T05:41:04","slug":"ex-afghan-president-narrates-how-he-fled-after-taliban-takeover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2021\/12\/31\/ex-afghan-president-narrates-how-he-fled-after-taliban-takeover\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Afghan president narrates how he fled after Taliban takeover"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former Afghanistan president, Ashraf Ghani has narrated how he fled the country after the Taliban takeover.<\/p>\n<p>Recall that Ghani in August fled the<span class=\"s2\">\u00a0country as Taliban fighters closed in on the presidential palace in the capital city of Kabul.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\"><span class=\"s3\">Resurfacing later, Ghani had said he believed \u201ccountless patriots would be martyred and the city of Kabul would be destroyed\u201d if he had stayed behind.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\"><span class=\"s3\">His decision to leave <a href=\"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2021\/12\/10\/mother-forced-to-sell-months-old-twin-to-buy-food-in-afghanistan\/\">Afghanistan<\/a> was heavily criticised and many were said to have accused him of abandoning the country.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\"><span class=\"s3\">Abdullah Abdullah, chairman of the high council for national reconciliation in Afghanistan had also accused Ghani of<\/span><span class=\"s3\">\u00a0\u201cleaving the country in a difficult situation\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\"><span class=\"s3\">Speaking on BBC Radio 4\u2019s \u2018Today\u2019 programme on Thursday, the ex-president, who is said to now be in the United Arab Emirates, said the Taliban fighters had agreed not to enter Kabul \u2013 \u201cbut two hours later, this was not the case\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\"><span class=\"s3\">\u201cTwo different factions of the Taliban were closing in from two different directions. And the possibility of a massive conflict between them that would destroy the city of five million and bring havoc to the people was enormous,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\"><span class=\"s3\">Ghani said he agreed to let some of those close to him leave Kabul while he waited for a car to take him to the ministry of defence, adding that he had no idea that he would leave the country.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\"><span class=\"s3\">\u201cOn the morning of that day, I had no inkling that by late afternoon, I would be leaving. Dr Mohib, the national security adviser, with the chief of PPS (president protective service) came and they said PPS has collapsed. If I take a stand, they will all be killed and they will not be capable of defending me. Dr Mohib was literally terrified. He did not give me more than two minutes,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\"><span class=\"s3\">\u201cMy instructions had been to prepare for departure for Khost. He told me Khost had fallen and so had Jalalabad. I did not know where we were going. Only when we took off did it become clear that we were leaving. So, this really was sudden.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\">Ghani also denied accusations that he left Afghanistan with large amounts of stolen money.<\/p>\n<p class=\"caps\">\u201cI want to categorically state that I did not take any money out of the country. My style of life is known to everyone. What would I do with money?\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Afghanistan president, Ashraf Ghani has narrated how he fled the country after the Taliban takeover. Recall that Ghani in August fled the\u00a0country as Taliban fighters closed in on the presidential palace in the capital city of Kabul. Resurfacing later, Ghani had said he believed \u201ccountless patriots would be martyred and the city of Kabul [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":127586,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_override_bookmark_settings":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[5638,15870,15869,15861],"class_list":["post-127576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","tag-afghanistan","tag-ashraf-ghani","tag-kabul","tag-taliban-fighters"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.4 (Yoast SEO v27.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Ex-Afghan president narrates how he fled after Taliban takeover<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Former Afghanistan president, Ashraf Ghani has narrated how he fled the country after the Taliban takeover.\" \/>\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.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2021\/12\/31\/ex-afghan-president-narrates-how-he-fled-after-taliban-takeover\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Ex-Afghan president narrates how he fled after Taliban takeover\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Former Afghanistan president, Ashraf Ghani has narrated how he fled the country after the Taliban takeover. Recall that Ghani in August fled the\u00a0country\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2021\/12\/31\/ex-afghan-president-narrates-how-he-fled-after-taliban-takeover\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"NEWS PICKS \u2014 WITHIN NIGERIA\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/facebook.com\/withinnigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:author\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/SodiqAdewaleChocomilo?mibextid=ZbWKwL\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2021-12-31T05:41:04+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/12\/adewale_chocomilo\/2021\/12\/31\/thumbs_b_c_055fbc69305aa7f582b91911a5faad75.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"863\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"485\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Sodiq Lawal Chocomilo\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@OChocomilo\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@withinnigeria\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Sodiq Lawal Chocomilo\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Estimated reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"NewsArticle\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.withinnigeria.com\\\/news\\\/2021\\\/12\\\/31\\\/ex-afghan-president-narrates-how-he-fled-after-taliban-takeover\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.withinnigeria.com\\\/news\\\/2021\\\/12\\\/31\\\/ex-afghan-president-narrates-how-he-fled-after-taliban-takeover\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Sodiq Lawal Chocomilo\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.withinnigeria.com\\\/news\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/30fd8fa996ffee1ae7408b182a684ffa\"},\"headline\":\"Ex-Afghan president narrates how he fled after Taliban takeover\",\"datePublished\":\"2021-12-31T05:41:04+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.withinnigeria.com\\\/news\\\/2021\\\/12\\\/31\\\/ex-afghan-president-narrates-how-he-fled-after-taliban-takeover\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":404,\"commentCount\":0,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.withinnigeria.com\\\/news\\\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.withinnigeria.com\\\/news\\\/2021\\\/12\\\/31\\\/ex-afghan-president-narrates-how-he-fled-after-taliban-takeover\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.withinnigeria.com\\\/news\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/sites\\\/5\\\/2021\\\/12\\\/adewale_chocomilo\\\/2021\\\/12\\\/31\\\/thumbs_b_c_055fbc69305aa7f582b91911a5faad75.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Afghanistan\",\"Ashraf Ghani\",\"Kabul\",\"Taliban fighters\"],\"articleSection\":[\"World News\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/www.withinnigeria.com\\\/news\\\/2021\\\/12\\\/31\\\/ex-afghan-president-narrates-how-he-fled-after-taliban-takeover\\\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.withinnigeria.com\\\/news\\\/2021\\\/12\\\/31\\\/ex-afghan-president-narrates-how-he-fled-after-taliban-takeover\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.withinnigeria.com\\\/news\\\/2021\\\/12\\\/31\\\/ex-afghan-president-narrates-how-he-fled-after-taliban-takeover\\\/\",\"name\":\"Ex-Afghan president narrates how he fled after Taliban takeover\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.withinnigeria.com\\\/news\\\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.withinnigeria.com\\\/news\\\/2021\\\/12\\\/31\\\/ex-afghan-president-narrates-how-he-fled-after-taliban-takeover\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.withinnigeria.com\\\/news\\\/2021\\\/12\\\/31\\\/ex-afghan-president-narrates-how-he-fled-after-taliban-takeover\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.withinnigeria.com\\\/news\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/sites\\\/5\\\/2021\\\/12\\\/adewale_chocomilo\\\/2021\\\/12\\\/31\\\/thumbs_b_c_055fbc69305aa7f582b91911a5faad75.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2021-12-31T05:41:04+00:00\",\"description\":\"Former Afghanistan president, Ashraf Ghani has narrated how he fled the country after the Taliban takeover.\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.withinnigeria.com\\\/news\\\/2021\\\/12\\\/31\\\/ex-afghan-president-narrates-how-he-fled-after-taliban-takeover\\\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/www.withinnigeria.com\\\/news\\\/2021\\\/12\\\/31\\\/ex-afghan-president-narrates-how-he-fled-after-taliban-takeover\\\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.withinnigeria.com\\\/news\\\/2021\\\/12\\\/31\\\/ex-afghan-president-narrates-how-he-fled-after-taliban-takeover\\\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.withinnigeria.com\\\/news\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/sites\\\/5\\\/2021\\\/12\\\/adewale_chocomilo\\\/2021\\\/12\\\/31\\\/thumbs_b_c_055fbc69305aa7f582b91911a5faad75.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.withinnigeria.com\\\/news\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/sites\\\/5\\\/2021\\\/12\\\/adewale_chocomilo\\\/2021\\\/12\\\/31\\\/thumbs_b_c_055fbc69305aa7f582b91911a5faad75.jpg\",\"width\":863,\"height\":485},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.withinnigeria.com\\\/news\\\/2021\\\/12\\\/31\\\/ex-afghan-president-narrates-how-he-fled-after-taliban-takeover\\\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.withinnigeria.com\\\/news\\\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Ex-Afghan president narrates how he fled after Taliban takeover\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.withinnigeria.com\\\/news\\\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.withinnigeria.com\\\/news\\\/\",\"name\":\"NEWS\",\"description\":\"Latest &amp; Trending Nigeria News, Entertainment, Sports\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.withinnigeria.com\\\/news\\\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.withinnigeria.com\\\/news\\\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.withinnigeria.com\\\/news\\\/#organization\",\"name\":\"WITHN NIGERIA MEDIA LIMITED\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.withinnigeria.com\\\/news\\\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.withinnigeria.com\\\/news\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/logo\\\/image\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.withinnigeria.com\\\/news\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/sites\\\/5\\\/2021\\\/01\\\/Logo-dark-bg.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.withinnigeria.com\\\/news\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/sites\\\/5\\\/2021\\\/01\\\/Logo-dark-bg.png\",\"width\":750,\"height\":500,\"caption\":\"WITHN NIGERIA MEDIA LIMITED\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.withinnigeria.com\\\/news\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/logo\\\/image\\\/\"},\"sameAs\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/facebook.com\\\/withinnigeria\",\"https:\\\/\\\/x.com\\\/withinnigeria\",\"https:\\\/\\\/www.instagram.com\\\/withinnigeria\\\/\",\"https:\\\/\\\/www.linkedin.com\\\/company\\\/withinnigeria\\\/\",\"https:\\\/\\\/www.youtube.com\\\/channel\\\/UCo0qw0SqhKNTsQQM48FpdTA\"]},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.withinnigeria.com\\\/news\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/30fd8fa996ffee1ae7408b182a684ffa\",\"name\":\"Sodiq Lawal Chocomilo\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/87917d701bb342a8e7c12833c7301dab5a0c88c83b2959248027da7ade686bc6?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/87917d701bb342a8e7c12833c7301dab5a0c88c83b2959248027da7ade686bc6?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/87917d701bb342a8e7c12833c7301dab5a0c88c83b2959248027da7ade686bc6?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Sodiq Lawal Chocomilo\"},\"description\":\"Lawal Sodiq Adewale aka CHOCOMILO is an award winning journalist. Mail me at Chocomilo@withinnigeria.com. See full profile on Within Nigeria's TEAM PAGE\",\"sameAs\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/www.facebook.com\\\/SodiqAdewaleChocomilo?mibextid=ZbWKwL\",\"https:\\\/\\\/x.com\\\/OChocomilo\"],\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.withinnigeria.com\\\/news\\\/author\\\/adewale_chocomilo\\\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Ex-Afghan president narrates how he fled after Taliban takeover","description":"Former Afghanistan president, Ashraf Ghani has narrated how he fled the country after the Taliban takeover.","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2021\/12\/31\/ex-afghan-president-narrates-how-he-fled-after-taliban-takeover\/","og_locale":"en_GB","og_type":"article","og_title":"Ex-Afghan president narrates how he fled after Taliban takeover","og_description":"Former Afghanistan president, Ashraf Ghani has narrated how he fled the country after the Taliban takeover. Recall that Ghani in August fled the\u00a0country","og_url":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2021\/12\/31\/ex-afghan-president-narrates-how-he-fled-after-taliban-takeover\/","og_site_name":"NEWS PICKS \u2014 WITHIN NIGERIA","article_publisher":"https:\/\/facebook.com\/withinnigeria","article_author":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/SodiqAdewaleChocomilo?mibextid=ZbWKwL","article_published_time":"2021-12-31T05:41:04+00:00","og_image":[{"width":863,"height":485,"url":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/12\/adewale_chocomilo\/2021\/12\/31\/thumbs_b_c_055fbc69305aa7f582b91911a5faad75.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Sodiq Lawal Chocomilo","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@OChocomilo","twitter_site":"@withinnigeria","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Sodiq Lawal Chocomilo","Estimated reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2021\/12\/31\/ex-afghan-president-narrates-how-he-fled-after-taliban-takeover\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2021\/12\/31\/ex-afghan-president-narrates-how-he-fled-after-taliban-takeover\/"},"author":{"name":"Sodiq Lawal Chocomilo","@id":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/30fd8fa996ffee1ae7408b182a684ffa"},"headline":"Ex-Afghan president narrates how he fled after Taliban takeover","datePublished":"2021-12-31T05:41:04+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2021\/12\/31\/ex-afghan-president-narrates-how-he-fled-after-taliban-takeover\/"},"wordCount":404,"commentCount":0,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/#organization"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2021\/12\/31\/ex-afghan-president-narrates-how-he-fled-after-taliban-takeover\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/12\/adewale_chocomilo\/2021\/12\/31\/thumbs_b_c_055fbc69305aa7f582b91911a5faad75.jpg","keywords":["Afghanistan","Ashraf Ghani","Kabul","Taliban fighters"],"articleSection":["World News"],"inLanguage":"en-GB","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2021\/12\/31\/ex-afghan-president-narrates-how-he-fled-after-taliban-takeover\/#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2021\/12\/31\/ex-afghan-president-narrates-how-he-fled-after-taliban-takeover\/","url":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2021\/12\/31\/ex-afghan-president-narrates-how-he-fled-after-taliban-takeover\/","name":"Ex-Afghan president narrates how he fled after Taliban takeover","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2021\/12\/31\/ex-afghan-president-narrates-how-he-fled-after-taliban-takeover\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2021\/12\/31\/ex-afghan-president-narrates-how-he-fled-after-taliban-takeover\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/12\/adewale_chocomilo\/2021\/12\/31\/thumbs_b_c_055fbc69305aa7f582b91911a5faad75.jpg","datePublished":"2021-12-31T05:41:04+00:00","description":"Former Afghanistan president, Ashraf Ghani has narrated how he fled the country after the Taliban takeover.","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2021\/12\/31\/ex-afghan-president-narrates-how-he-fled-after-taliban-takeover\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-GB","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2021\/12\/31\/ex-afghan-president-narrates-how-he-fled-after-taliban-takeover\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-GB","@id":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2021\/12\/31\/ex-afghan-president-narrates-how-he-fled-after-taliban-takeover\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/12\/adewale_chocomilo\/2021\/12\/31\/thumbs_b_c_055fbc69305aa7f582b91911a5faad75.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/12\/adewale_chocomilo\/2021\/12\/31\/thumbs_b_c_055fbc69305aa7f582b91911a5faad75.jpg","width":863,"height":485},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2021\/12\/31\/ex-afghan-president-narrates-how-he-fled-after-taliban-takeover\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Ex-Afghan president narrates how he fled after Taliban takeover"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/","name":"NEWS","description":"Latest &amp; Trending Nigeria News, Entertainment, Sports","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-GB"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/#organization","name":"WITHN NIGERIA MEDIA LIMITED","url":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-GB","@id":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/01\/Logo-dark-bg.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/01\/Logo-dark-bg.png","width":750,"height":500,"caption":"WITHN NIGERIA MEDIA LIMITED"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/facebook.com\/withinnigeria","https:\/\/x.com\/withinnigeria","https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/withinnigeria\/","https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/withinnigeria\/","https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCo0qw0SqhKNTsQQM48FpdTA"]},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/30fd8fa996ffee1ae7408b182a684ffa","name":"Sodiq Lawal Chocomilo","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-GB","@id":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/87917d701bb342a8e7c12833c7301dab5a0c88c83b2959248027da7ade686bc6?s=96&d=mm&r=g","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/87917d701bb342a8e7c12833c7301dab5a0c88c83b2959248027da7ade686bc6?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/87917d701bb342a8e7c12833c7301dab5a0c88c83b2959248027da7ade686bc6?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Sodiq Lawal Chocomilo"},"description":"Lawal Sodiq Adewale aka CHOCOMILO is an award winning journalist. Mail me at Chocomilo@withinnigeria.com. See full profile on Within Nigeria's TEAM PAGE","sameAs":["https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/SodiqAdewaleChocomilo?mibextid=ZbWKwL","https:\/\/x.com\/OChocomilo"],"url":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/author\/adewale_chocomilo\/"}]}},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127576\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/127586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}