{"id":76065,"date":"2025-10-04T06:41:51","date_gmt":"2025-10-04T06:41:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=76065"},"modified":"2025-10-04T06:41:51","modified_gmt":"2025-10-04T06:41:51","slug":"gunmen-abduct-veterinary-doctor-three-children-in-fct-niger-border-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/10\/04\/gunmen-abduct-veterinary-doctor-three-children-in-fct-niger-border-community\/","title":{"rendered":"Gunmen Abduct Veterinary Doctor, Three Children in FCT-Niger Border Community"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Onyeanya Ebere Immaculata<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Gunmen have abducted a veterinary doctor, Dr. Ifeanyi Ogbu, and his three children from their residence in Kungabokun, a community on the border between the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), and Niger State.<\/p>\n<p>The incident occurred around 11:45 p.m. on Wednesday when the assailants reportedly broke into the house through a window and whisked the victims away to an undisclosed location.<\/p>\n<p>Police operatives from the Byazhin Division, supported by the Anti-Kidnapping Unit and local vigilantes, have launched a coordinated search of surrounding forests and hills in an effort to rescue the victims and track down the attackers.<\/p>\n<p>Security sources confirmed that the State Criminal Investigation Department (SCID), has opened an inquiry into the case.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities have urged residents to remain calm, assuring that all necessary measures are being taken to secure the release of Dr. Ogbu and his children.<\/p>\n<p>As of press time, no group has claimed responsibility for the abduction, and the victims\u2019 whereabouts remain unknown.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Onyeanya Ebere Immaculata Gunmen have abducted a veterinary doctor, Dr. Ifeanyi Ogbu, and his three children from their residence in Kungabokun, a community on the border between the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), and Niger State. The incident occurred around 11:45 p.m. on Wednesday when the assailants reportedly broke into the house through a window [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":76066,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[177,181,172],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-76065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-abuja-reports","category-crime","category-news","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76065","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=76065"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76065\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76067,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76065\/revisions\/76067"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}