{"id":70598,"date":"2025-07-14T21:12:48","date_gmt":"2025-07-14T21:12:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=70598"},"modified":"2025-07-14T21:12:48","modified_gmt":"2025-07-14T21:12:48","slug":"man-shot-dead-in-suspected-cult-clash-in-ogun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/07\/14\/man-shot-dead-in-suspected-cult-clash-in-ogun\/","title":{"rendered":"Man Shot Dead in Suspected Cult Clash in Ogun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Onyeanya Ebere Immaculata<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A 44-year-old man, Bashiru Saidu, was shot dead in a suspected cult clash on Sunday night in the Atan-Ota area of Ogun State.<\/p>\n<p>Eyewitnesses said four armed men, believed to be members of a rival cult group, attacked Saidu, who is allegedly affiliated with the Eiye Confraternity along Bankole Onibukun Street.<\/p>\n<p>He was shot at close range and died on the spot.<\/p>\n<p>Police spokesperson SP Omolola Odutola confirmed the incident, stating that a distress call was received around 10:00 p.m. and officers responded swiftly.<\/p>\n<p>Saidu\u2019s body was later deposited at the State Hospital Mortuary in Ilaro.<\/p>\n<p>In reaction, the Commissioner of Police, Lanre Ogunlowo, ordered the deployment of the Anti-Cultism Unit to the area to investigate and arrest the perpetrators.<\/p>\n<p>Odutola said the command remains committed to ending cult-related violence and urged residents to stay vigilant and report suspicious activities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Onyeanya Ebere Immaculata &nbsp; A 44-year-old man, Bashiru Saidu, was shot dead in a suspected cult clash on Sunday night in the Atan-Ota area of Ogun State. Eyewitnesses said four armed men, believed to be members of a rival cult group, attacked Saidu, who is allegedly affiliated with the Eiye Confraternity along Bankole Onibukun [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":70599,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[181,172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70598","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=70598"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70598\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70600,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70598\/revisions\/70600"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}