{"id":61274,"date":"2025-02-14T20:12:02","date_gmt":"2025-02-14T20:12:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=61274"},"modified":"2025-02-14T20:12:02","modified_gmt":"2025-02-14T20:12:02","slug":"health-worker-shot-dead-near-akure-airport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/02\/14\/health-worker-shot-dead-near-akure-airport\/","title":{"rendered":"Health Worker Shot Dead Near Akure Airport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Abaire Olanlesi<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A health worker, Akinola Oyabiyi, was shot dead by unknown gunmen near Akure Airport in Eleyowo, Ondo State, in what is suspected to be a failed kidnapping attempt.<\/p>\n<p>The 46-year-old was attacked Tuesday evening while driving home when assailants emerged from the bush and shot him in the belly.<\/p>\n<p>He died shortly after, according to a family member.<\/p>\n<p>State Police PRO, Funmilayo Odunlami, confirmed the incident, stating that an investigation is underway.<\/p>\n<p>The killing adds to a wave of violent attacks in the area, including recent abductions and multiple farm worker killings.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Abaire Olanlesi A health worker, Akinola Oyabiyi, was shot dead by unknown gunmen near Akure Airport in Eleyowo, Ondo State, in what is suspected to be a failed kidnapping attempt. The 46-year-old was attacked Tuesday evening while driving home when assailants emerged from the bush and shot him in the belly. He died shortly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":61275,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61274","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\/61274","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=61274"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61274\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61276,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61274\/revisions\/61276"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}