{"id":72031,"date":"2025-08-05T05:17:29","date_gmt":"2025-08-05T05:17:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=72031"},"modified":"2025-08-05T05:17:29","modified_gmt":"2025-08-05T05:17:29","slug":"husband-seeks-justice-for-murdered-nurse-child-in-abuja-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/08\/05\/husband-seeks-justice-for-murdered-nurse-child-in-abuja-school\/","title":{"rendered":"Husband Seeks Justice for Murdered Nurse, Child in Abuja School"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Olokuta Rofiat<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The husband of a nurse murdered alongside a four-year-old child at a private school in Lokogoma, Abuja, is calling on authorities to ensure justice is served swiftly.<\/p>\n<p>The victims, identified as Mrs. Grace Oche and the young pupil, were found dead in a classroom last week, both showing signs of strangulation.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Police Command, initial investigations revealed that the attack occurred after school hours. The assailants had reportedly demanded a ransom of N3 million from the child\u2019s parents.<\/p>\n<p>Mrs. Oche\u2019s husband described her as a kind and dedicated professional who was only carrying out her duties. Speaking at a press briefing on Monday, he expressed his shock and heartbreak over the killing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is not just my pain; this is a blow to every parent and caregiver in this country,\u201d he lamented.<\/p>\n<p>The police have arrested two suspects, who allegedly confessed to luring the victims into the classroom before killing them.<\/p>\n<p>The incident has sparked public outrage, with many Nigerians on social media calling for better security measures in schools and justice for the victims.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Olokuta Rofiat The husband of a nurse murdered alongside a four-year-old child at a private school in Lokogoma, Abuja, is calling on authorities to ensure justice is served swiftly. The victims, identified as Mrs. Grace Oche and the young pupil, were found dead in a classroom last week, both showing signs of strangulation. According [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":72032,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1386,172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-judiciary","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72031","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=72031"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72031\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72033,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72031\/revisions\/72033"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}