{"id":59739,"date":"2025-01-20T00:31:10","date_gmt":"2025-01-20T00:31:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=59739"},"modified":"2025-01-20T00:31:10","modified_gmt":"2025-01-20T00:31:10","slug":"prophet-gunned-down-in-church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/01\/20\/prophet-gunned-down-in-church\/","title":{"rendered":"Prophet Gunned Down In Church"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Patrick Idowu<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Gunmen stormed a Celestial Church of Christ (CCC), in Idiroko, Ipokia Local Government Area of Ogun State, on Sunday, killing 54-year-old Prophet Yomi Adetula during a service.<\/p>\n<p>The attack occurred at CCC Eagle Parish along Baggage Road, Odo Eran, around 10:30 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>Eyewitnesses reported that the three assailants targeted Adetula, shooting him and brutally attacking his head with an axe.<\/p>\n<p>Ogun State Police Spokesperson, Omolola Odutola, confirmed the incident, stating that officers found Adetula&#8217;s lifeless body in a pool of blood, with bullet wounds and severe head injuries.<\/p>\n<p>Odutola revealed that the attackers used a double-barrel gun and fled toward the border area.<\/p>\n<p>She assured the public that investigations are underway to apprehend the culprits, adding that normalcy had been restored in the area.<\/p>\n<p>The deceased&#8217;s body has been deposited at the General Hospital Morgue in Ilaro as police continue their probe into the tragic incident.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Patrick Idowu Gunmen stormed a Celestial Church of Christ (CCC), in Idiroko, Ipokia Local Government Area of Ogun State, on Sunday, killing 54-year-old Prophet Yomi Adetula during a service. The attack occurred at CCC Eagle Parish along Baggage Road, Odo Eran, around 10:30 a.m. Eyewitnesses reported that the three assailants targeted Adetula, shooting him [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":59659,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59739"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59739\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59740,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59739\/revisions\/59740"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}