{"id":65675,"date":"2025-05-13T09:23:10","date_gmt":"2025-05-13T09:23:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=65675"},"modified":"2025-05-13T09:23:10","modified_gmt":"2025-05-13T09:23:10","slug":"ishaya-bako-48-falls-from-palm-tree-dies-in-abuja","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/05\/13\/ishaya-bako-48-falls-from-palm-tree-dies-in-abuja\/","title":{"rendered":"Ishaya Bako, 48, Falls From Palm Tree, Dies in Abuja"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>By Patrick Idowu<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>A palm fruit harvest ended in tragedy on Monday as forty-eight-year-old Ishaya Bako fell to his death from a tree in Kutara village, Abaji Area Council of the FCT.<\/p>\n<p>According to a resident, Dantani Usman, Bako was harvesting palm kernels with his son when the rope tied around his waist snapped mid-climb.<\/p>\n<p>He plummeted and struck his head on a stone below.<\/p>\n<p>His son, in a panic, raced back home to alert the family. They rushed to the farm and found Bako in a pool of blood with a severe head injury.<\/p>\n<p>The villagers quickly placed him on a motorcycle in a desperate attempt to get him to a hospital, but he died on the way. His remains were buried shortly after.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Patrick Idowu A palm fruit harvest ended in tragedy on Monday as forty-eight-year-old Ishaya Bako fell to his death from a tree in Kutara village, Abaji Area Council of the FCT. According to a resident, Dantani Usman, Bako was harvesting palm kernels with his son when the rope tied around his waist snapped mid-climb. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":65676,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[175],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65675","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\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65675"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65675\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65677,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65675\/revisions\/65677"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}