{"id":74181,"date":"2025-08-26T06:27:26","date_gmt":"2025-08-26T06:27:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=74181"},"modified":"2025-08-26T06:27:26","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T06:27:26","slug":"thunderstorm-kills-farmer-two-herders-at-abuja-kogi-border","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/08\/26\/thunderstorm-kills-farmer-two-herders-at-abuja-kogi-border\/","title":{"rendered":"Thunderstorm Kills Farmer, Two Herders at Abuja-Kogi Border"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Olokuta Rofiat<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A thunderstorm has killed a farmer and two herders in Chikara, a community on the border between Abaji Area Council of Abuja and Kotonkarfe in Kogi State.<\/p>\n<p>The incident occurred around 3:12 p.m. last Wednesday during a heavy downpour when lightning struck as the victims were on the farm.<\/p>\n<p>A resident, Ezekiel Samson, said the herders had brought their cattle to graze when the farmer, identified as Gambo Abdullahi, was returning home. Lightning struck suddenly, killing Abdullahi and the two herders instantly.<\/p>\n<p>Another herder sustained injuries and was rushed to a hospital in Kotonkarfe, where he is receiving treatment.<\/p>\n<p>The Ardo Fulani of Chikara, Malam Yakubu Usman, who was away in Lokoja at the time, said he received a distress call and immediately returned to the community.<\/p>\n<p>He reported the tragedy to the police outpost and assisted in retrieving the bodies for burial.<\/p>\n<p>The police in Chikara confirmed the incident, which has left the community in shock.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Olokuta Rofiat A thunderstorm has killed a farmer and two herders in Chikara, a community on the border between Abaji Area Council of Abuja and Kotonkarfe in Kogi State. The incident occurred around 3:12 p.m. last Wednesday during a heavy downpour when lightning struck as the victims were on the farm. A resident, Ezekiel [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":74184,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[177,172],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-74181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-abuja-reports","category-news","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74181","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=74181"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74181\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74185,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74181\/revisions\/74185"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}