{"id":74401,"date":"2025-08-28T08:25:15","date_gmt":"2025-08-28T08:25:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=74401"},"modified":"2025-08-28T08:25:15","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T08:25:15","slug":"violence-in-lagos-four-dead-in-owode-balogun-clashes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/08\/28\/violence-in-lagos-four-dead-in-owode-balogun-clashes\/","title":{"rendered":"Violence in Lagos: Four Dead in Owode, Balogun Clashes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Omoniyi David<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A violent clash in Owode Onirin, Kosofe LGA, Lagos, left three people dead and several injured, including a policeman, after armed men allegedly working for Abiodun Ariori tried to evict traders and mechanics by force.<\/p>\n<p>Eyewitnesses said traders resisted, leading to a deadly shootout and road blockages before police restored order.<\/p>\n<p>Police confirmed that efforts to arrest Ariori, CEO of Prosperous Ariori Golden Venture Ltd, have so far failed.<\/p>\n<p>Four policemen allegedly brought in by the suspect from outside Lagos were detained for illegal duty.<\/p>\n<p>In a separate incident at Balogun Market, Lagos Island, one man, Sodiq Ibrahim from Kogi, was killed after a dispute over transaction proceeds with a colleague, Ebuka Adindu from Abia, turned violent.<\/p>\n<p>Ebuka also injured himself and was arrested in hospital.<\/p>\n<p>Police dismissed reports of tribal clashes, describing both incidents as \u201cfree-for-all confrontations between miscreants.\u201d Normalcy has been restored, and investigations are ongoing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Omoniyi David &nbsp; A violent clash in Owode Onirin, Kosofe LGA, Lagos, left three people dead and several injured, including a policeman, after armed men allegedly working for Abiodun Ariori tried to evict traders and mechanics by force. Eyewitnesses said traders resisted, leading to a deadly shootout and road blockages before police restored order. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":74402,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74401","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\/74401","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=74401"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74401\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74403,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74401\/revisions\/74403"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}