{"id":62055,"date":"2025-03-03T09:22:08","date_gmt":"2025-03-03T09:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=62055"},"modified":"2025-03-03T09:22:08","modified_gmt":"2025-03-03T09:22:08","slug":"police-dismisses-terrorist-threat-rumour-in-abuja","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/03\/03\/police-dismisses-terrorist-threat-rumour-in-abuja\/","title":{"rendered":"Police Dismisses Terrorist Threat Rumour in Abuja"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Patrick Idowu<\/p>\n<p>The Nigeria Police Force has dismissed viral social media claims about the presence of 79 terrorists in Lugbe, Abuja, labeling the reports as false and misleading.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement on Sunday, Force Public Relations Officer ACP Olumuyiwa Adejobi debunked the widely circulated message, warning that it was a deliberate attempt to incite panic and disrupt peace in the Federal Capital Territory.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe message alleging a terrorist presence and curfew in Lugbe is entirely untrue and should be ignored,\u201d Adejobi stated.<\/p>\n<p>He clarified that security assessments found no evidence supporting the claims.<\/p>\n<p>The police urged the public to rely on verified information from official sources and cautioned against spreading unverified security alerts.<\/p>\n<p>They reassured residents of their commitment to safeguarding lives and property while encouraging vigilance and prompt reporting of suspicious activities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Patrick Idowu The Nigeria Police Force has dismissed viral social media claims about the presence of 79 terrorists in Lugbe, Abuja, labeling the reports as false and misleading. In a statement on Sunday, Force Public Relations Officer ACP Olumuyiwa Adejobi debunked the widely circulated message, warning that it was a deliberate attempt to incite [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":60999,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[177,172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-abuja-reports","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62055","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\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62055"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62055\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62056,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62055\/revisions\/62056"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}