{"id":70834,"date":"2025-07-17T12:32:32","date_gmt":"2025-07-17T12:32:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=70834"},"modified":"2025-07-17T12:32:32","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T12:32:32","slug":"hoodlums-kill-corps-member-steal-motorcycle-in-abuja","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/07\/17\/hoodlums-kill-corps-member-steal-motorcycle-in-abuja\/","title":{"rendered":"Hoodlums Kill Corps Member, Steal Motorcycle in Abuja"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Patrick Idowu<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Suspected hoodlums have killed a serving National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), member, Shuaibu Adamu, in Gwagwalada Area Council of the FCT.<\/p>\n<p>The incident occurred behind the AA Rano filling station along the Abuja-Lokoja highway, where the attackers reportedly struck Adamu with a hammer while he was riding home, then fled with his motorcycle.<\/p>\n<p>Eyewitnesses said passersby later identified the victim and alerted his family, who rushed him to the hospital, where he was confirmed dead.<\/p>\n<p>Adamu, a native of Abaji and son of Alhaji Salihu Kakamba, the district head of Unguwar Sabon-Tasha, was serving in Kogi LGA and had visited relatives in Gwagwalada.<\/p>\n<p>He was buried on Tuesday in Abaji. Residents of Gwagwalada, Kwali, and Abaji have raised concerns over a recent spike in motorcycle snatching.<\/p>\n<p>FCT Police spokesperson, SP Josephine Adeh, was yet to confirm the incident as of press time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Patrick Idowu &nbsp; Suspected hoodlums have killed a serving National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), member, Shuaibu Adamu, in Gwagwalada Area Council of the FCT. The incident occurred behind the AA Rano filling station along the Abuja-Lokoja highway, where the attackers reportedly struck Adamu with a hammer while he was riding home, then fled with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":70835,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[181],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70834","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=70834"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70834\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70836,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70834\/revisions\/70836"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}