{"id":75747,"date":"2025-09-27T09:19:37","date_gmt":"2025-09-27T09:19:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=75747"},"modified":"2025-09-27T09:19:37","modified_gmt":"2025-09-27T09:19:37","slug":"fct-police-arrest-seven-over-murder-of-nysc-member-in-abuja","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/09\/27\/fct-police-arrest-seven-over-murder-of-nysc-member-in-abuja\/","title":{"rendered":"FCT Police Arrest Seven over Murder of NYSC Member in Abuja"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Patrick Idowu<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Operatives of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Police Command have arrested seven suspected \u201cone-chance\u201d criminals in connection with the murder of Miss Oluchi Opara Glory, a National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), member who had just completed her service in Abuja.<\/p>\n<p>The arrests followed a petition filed on July 21, 2025, by Onyegbula Akujuobi &amp; Co., addressed to the Inspector General of Police and endorsed to the FCT Commissioner of Police.<\/p>\n<p>Acting on the petition, the Scorpion Squad, led by ACP Victor O. Godfrey, launched an intelligence-driven operation.<\/p>\n<p>According to police sources, the suspects were picked up between August 8 and September 25, 2025, through digital tracking and reconstructive intelligence.<\/p>\n<p>Those in custody include 29-year-old Solomon Obada from Ado Local Government Area of Benue State, who resides in Mararaba, Nasarawa; 29-year-old Olemba Ajonwe from Otukpo, Benue, also resident in Aso, Mararaba; and 40-year-old Aba Godwin from Ogwarigbo, Benue, who lives in Mararaba and was only released from prison two months ago over a similar case.<\/p>\n<p>Others arrested are 18-year-old Kadijat Yakubu from Sokoto State, resident in Badarawa, Kaduna; 29-year-old Sunday Ejih Okpeh from Otukpo, Benue; 25-year-old Joseph Oche Samuel from Benue; and 25-year-old Michael Sunday Eneh from Cross River, all based in Aso, Mararaba.<\/p>\n<p>Investigations revealed that the victim\u2019s mobile phone was traced to Kaduna, where it was recovered from Yakubu.<\/p>\n<p>During interrogation, Obada and Ajonwe reportedly confessed that the victim was stabbed during a struggle inside their operational vehicle, a blue Golf car, before being abandoned while bleeding in Wuse II, Abuja.<\/p>\n<p>Police said efforts are ongoing to arrest another suspect still at large. Items recovered so far include the victim\u2019s phone and the vehicle used in the crime.<\/p>\n<p>The FCT Police Command assured that thorough investigations are underway and pledged that justice will be served.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Patrick Idowu &nbsp; Operatives of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Police Command have arrested seven suspected \u201cone-chance\u201d criminals in connection with the murder of Miss Oluchi Opara Glory, a National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), member who had just completed her service in Abuja. The arrests followed a petition filed on July 21, 2025, by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":75748,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[181,172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75747","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=75747"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75747\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75749,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75747\/revisions\/75749"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}