{"id":70997,"date":"2025-07-19T11:34:29","date_gmt":"2025-07-19T11:34:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=70997"},"modified":"2025-07-19T11:34:29","modified_gmt":"2025-07-19T11:34:29","slug":"one-chance-crisis-escalates-in-fct","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/07\/19\/one-chance-crisis-escalates-in-fct\/","title":{"rendered":"One-Chance Crisis Escalates in FCT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Olokuta Rofiat<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Residents of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) are living in fear as one-chance syndicates and criminals disguised as commercial drivers intensify their attacks across Abuja.<\/p>\n<p>Hotspots like Wuse, Lugbe, Kubwa, Gwarinpa, and Apo have recorded frequent incidents, with victims recounting how they were robbed, assaulted, and thrown out of moving vehicles.<\/p>\n<p>Many attacks occur during rush hours, even in broad daylight.<\/p>\n<p>The FCT Police Command confirmed awareness of the situation.<\/p>\n<p>Police spokesperson, SP Josephine Adeh, said on Saturday, July 19, 2025, that patrols have been intensified and intelligence operations are ongoing to dismantle the criminal rings.<\/p>\n<p>Rising cases of victims suffering injuries, stolen phones, and emptied bank accounts have triggered widespread panic.<\/p>\n<p>Security experts have urged residents to avoid unpainted or private vehicles and called on the government to regulate intra-city transport.<\/p>\n<p>With the attacks escalating, residents are demanding urgent intervention from the FCT Minister and security agencies to safeguard commuters across Abuja.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Olokuta Rofiat &nbsp; Residents of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) are living in fear as one-chance syndicates and criminals disguised as commercial drivers intensify their attacks across Abuja. Hotspots like Wuse, Lugbe, Kubwa, Gwarinpa, and Apo have recorded frequent incidents, with victims recounting how they were robbed, assaulted, and thrown out of moving vehicles. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":70998,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[177,172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-abuja-reports","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70997","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=70997"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70997\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70999,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70997\/revisions\/70999"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}