{"id":69391,"date":"2025-07-01T09:13:31","date_gmt":"2025-07-01T09:13:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=69391"},"modified":"2025-07-01T09:13:31","modified_gmt":"2025-07-01T09:13:31","slug":"lightning-kills-herd-of-cows-in-ogun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/07\/01\/lightning-kills-herd-of-cows-in-ogun\/","title":{"rendered":"Lightning Kills Herd of Cows in Ogun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Onilede Titi Faith<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A herder in Ogun State has been left devastated after a lightning strike killed several of his cows; his sole source of livelihood.<\/p>\n<p>The incident occurred in the early hours in a remote part of the state, stunning residents who described the strike as unusually intense.<\/p>\n<p>The herder, visibly distraught, said the loss could lead to financial ruin for his family.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese cows were all I had to feed my wife and children,\u201d he lamented, appealing to the government and well-meaning Nigerians for help.<\/p>\n<p>Eyewitnesses at the scene were divided on the cause, with some attributing it to natural weather activity, while others speculated about supernatural forces, a belief common in rural communities.<\/p>\n<p>Local leaders have urged the state and federal governments to support the affected herder and investigate the incident to prevent future occurrences.<\/p>\n<p>They also renewed calls for insurance and safety nets for rural dwellers who depend on livestock for survival.<\/p>\n<p>As of press time, neither the Ogun State government nor the Nigerian Meteorological Agency had issued an official statement on the incident.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Onilede Titi Faith &nbsp; A herder in Ogun State has been left devastated after a lightning strike killed several of his cows; his sole source of livelihood. The incident occurred in the early hours in a remote part of the state, stunning residents who described the strike as unusually intense. The herder, visibly distraught, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":69392,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69391","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\/69391","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\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69391"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69391\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69393,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69391\/revisions\/69393"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}