{"id":67562,"date":"2025-06-08T11:52:28","date_gmt":"2025-06-08T11:52:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=67562"},"modified":"2025-06-08T11:52:28","modified_gmt":"2025-06-08T11:52:28","slug":"phenomenal-actor-seeks-prayers-after-friend-rico-survives-ceiling-collapse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/06\/08\/phenomenal-actor-seeks-prayers-after-friend-rico-survives-ceiling-collapse\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Phenomenal&#8217; Actor Seeks Prayers After Friend Rico Survives Ceiling Collapse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Adenike Lawal<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Nollywood actor Charles Okocha has asked fans and well-wishers to pray for his friend Rico, popularly known as \u201cBillionaire Gateman,\u201d who narrowly escaped death after a ceiling collapse in his home.<\/p>\n<p>Rico was caught beneath fallen POP (Plaster of Paris) ceiling panels, prompting immediate concern.<\/p>\n<p>He was quickly rescued and taken to the hospital for treatment.<\/p>\n<p>Reacting to the incident, Okocha shared a message on Instagram thanking God for Rico\u2019s survival.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPrayers up for my boy Rico #billionaire_gateman_ POP just fell on him. To God be the glory,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n<p>The post drew widespread attention, with fans and fellow entertainers joining him in offering prayers and support for Rico\u2019s recovery.<\/p>\n<p>The close call serves as a reminder of the unpredictability of such accidents and the power of communal solidarity in times of crisis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Adenike Lawal Nollywood actor Charles Okocha has asked fans and well-wishers to pray for his friend Rico, popularly known as \u201cBillionaire Gateman,\u201d who narrowly escaped death after a ceiling collapse in his home. Rico was caught beneath fallen POP (Plaster of Paris) ceiling panels, prompting immediate concern. He was quickly rescued and taken to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":67563,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67562","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\/67562","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=67562"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67562\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67564,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67562\/revisions\/67564"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}