{"id":72011,"date":"2025-08-04T15:52:06","date_gmt":"2025-08-04T15:52:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=72011"},"modified":"2025-08-04T15:54:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T15:54:09","slug":"four-arrested-as-newborn-goes-missing-from-ekiti-hospital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/08\/04\/four-arrested-as-newborn-goes-missing-from-ekiti-hospital\/","title":{"rendered":"Newborn Baby Goes Missing in Ekiti Hospital"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Patrick Idowu<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Tension gripped the Okeyinmi Health Centre in Ado-Ekiti, the Ekiti State capital, on Monday after a newborn baby was reported missing from the hospital.<\/p>\n<p>According to an eyewitness, the disappearance was discovered when nurses on duty came to attend to the baby in the early hours of the morning.<\/p>\n<p>The incident has sparked fear and confusion within the hospital environment.<\/p>\n<p>In response, hospital staff, including those on duty in the ward, the baby\u2019s mother, a security guard, and others were taken to the police station for questioning.<\/p>\n<p>The situation also shocked nearby traders, many of whom expressed disbelief over the alarming development.<\/p>\n<p>Confirming the incident, the Police Public Relations Officer, SP Sunday Abutu, said four suspects have been arrested in connection with the case and are providing \u201ccredible information that will aid the investigation process.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Abutu added that the State Commissioner of Police, Mr. Joseph Eribo, has ordered the State Criminal Investigation Department (CID), to conduct a thorough investigation and ensure the swift recovery of the missing baby.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Patrick Idowu Tension gripped the Okeyinmi Health Centre in Ado-Ekiti, the Ekiti State capital, on Monday after a newborn baby was reported missing from the hospital. According to an eyewitness, the disappearance was discovered when nurses on duty came to attend to the baby in the early hours of the morning. The incident has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":72012,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72011","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\/72011","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=72011"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72011\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72015,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72011\/revisions\/72015"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}