{"id":72200,"date":"2025-08-06T05:30:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-06T05:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=72200"},"modified":"2025-08-06T05:30:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T05:30:07","slug":"pedestrian-killed-in-abuja-expressway-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/08\/06\/pedestrian-killed-in-abuja-expressway-crash\/","title":{"rendered":"Pedestrian Killed in Abuja Expressway Crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Huldah Shado<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A fatal accident occurred Tuesday along the Goodluck Jonathan Expressway near Villa Bridge, Abuja, claiming the life of 55-year-old Musa Shaibu from Idah, Kogi State.<\/p>\n<p>According to Nkechi Isa, Head of Public Affairs at the FCT Emergency Management Department (FEMD), the incident happened when a Volkswagen bus operated by Quest Capital Company allegedly suffered brake failure and hit the pedestrian from behind.<\/p>\n<p>The FEMD Search and Rescue Team rushed the victim to Asokoro General Hospital, where he was confirmed dead on arrival.<\/p>\n<p>Shaibu was reportedly walking along the expressway at the time of the incident.<\/p>\n<p>Though his immediate family lives in Kaduna, officials reached a cousin in Abuja using the deceased\u2019s phone.<\/p>\n<p>The driver has been arrested and handed over to the police for further investigation.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Huldah Shado A fatal accident occurred Tuesday along the Goodluck Jonathan Expressway near Villa Bridge, Abuja, claiming the life of 55-year-old Musa Shaibu from Idah, Kogi State. According to Nkechi Isa, Head of Public Affairs at the FCT Emergency Management Department (FEMD), the incident happened when a Volkswagen bus operated by Quest Capital Company [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":72201,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[177,172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72200","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\/72200","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=72200"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72200\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72202,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72200\/revisions\/72202"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}