{"id":70529,"date":"2025-07-14T06:04:25","date_gmt":"2025-07-14T06:04:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=70529"},"modified":"2025-07-14T06:04:25","modified_gmt":"2025-07-14T06:04:25","slug":"23-year-old-womans-death-triggers-police-probe-in-abuja","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/07\/14\/23-year-old-womans-death-triggers-police-probe-in-abuja\/","title":{"rendered":"23-Year-Old Woman\u2019s Death Triggers Police Probe in Abuja\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Huldah Shado<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Federal Capital Territory Police Command has launched an investigation into the death of a 23-year-old woman, Grace Godwin, whose body was discovered by the roadside in the Jabi area of Abuja.<\/p>\n<p>Godwin, a fuel attendant in Mabushi, was reportedly returning home from work on Friday evening when she boarded a commercial vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>Her lifeless body was found the following morning near Iya Abubakar Street, sparking fears she may have fallen victim to the notorious one-chance syndicate terrorizing commuters in the city.<\/p>\n<p>FCT Police spokesperson, SP Josephine Adeh, confirmed the incident in a phone conversation on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe police were informed about the incident and we went there to recover the body. Investigation is ongoing,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>According to sources close to the family, the suspected abductors had contacted them to demand ransom shortly after Godwin boarded the vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>However, she was found dead hours later.<\/p>\n<p>Police operatives conveyed her remains to the National Hospital, where she was confirmed dead.<\/p>\n<p>The family has since identified her body, and an autopsy is expected to help determine the exact cause of death.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Huldah Shado The Federal Capital Territory Police Command has launched an investigation into the death of a 23-year-old woman, Grace Godwin, whose body was discovered by the roadside in the Jabi area of Abuja. Godwin, a fuel attendant in Mabushi, was reportedly returning home from work on Friday evening when she boarded a commercial [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":70530,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[177,172],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-70529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-abuja-reports","category-news","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70529","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=70529"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70529\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70531,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70529\/revisions\/70531"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}