{"id":75179,"date":"2025-09-08T15:54:29","date_gmt":"2025-09-08T15:54:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=75179"},"modified":"2025-09-08T15:54:29","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T15:54:29","slug":"decomposed-body-found-in-vehicle-at-national-assembly-complex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/09\/08\/decomposed-body-found-in-vehicle-at-national-assembly-complex\/","title":{"rendered":"Decomposed Body Found in Vehicle at National Assembly Complex"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Onilede Titi Faith<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Police Command has confirmed the discovery of a decomposed body inside a vehicle parked at the annex gate of the National Assembly complex in Abuja.<\/p>\n<p>The deceased, identified as 55-year-old Gaddafi Iwar, a Tiv man believed to have been working as a labourer at a construction site within the Assembly grounds, was found on Sunday, September 7, 2025, in a red Peugeot 406 with registration number BWR-577 BF.<\/p>\n<p>Security and medical officials said the body was initially evacuated to the National Assembly Clinic for confirmation before being taken to Asokoro General Hospital.<\/p>\n<p>However, hospital officials declined to admit the remains due to the advanced stage of decomposition.<\/p>\n<p>Community leaders from the Tiv ethnic group later intervened, transporting the corpse to Gbawu village, a border settlement between Abuja Municipal Area Council (AMAC), and Kuje Area Council, where he was buried to avert potential public health risks.<\/p>\n<p>The police said investigations are ongoing to determine the circumstances surrounding Iwar\u2019s death.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Onilede Titi Faith &nbsp; The Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Police Command has confirmed the discovery of a decomposed body inside a vehicle parked at the annex gate of the National Assembly complex in Abuja. The deceased, identified as 55-year-old Gaddafi Iwar, a Tiv man believed to have been working as a labourer at a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":75180,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75179","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\/75179","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=75179"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75181,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75179\/revisions\/75181"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}