{"id":76177,"date":"2025-10-07T09:31:49","date_gmt":"2025-10-07T09:31:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=76177"},"modified":"2025-10-07T09:31:49","modified_gmt":"2025-10-07T09:31:49","slug":"abuja-wedding-incident-fct-police-clarify-no-deaths-occurred","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/10\/07\/abuja-wedding-incident-fct-police-clarify-no-deaths-occurred\/","title":{"rendered":"Abuja Wedding Incident: FCT Police Clarify No Deaths Occurred"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Onyeanya Ebere Immaculata<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Police Command on Monday dismissed reports alleging that two guests were killed during a wedding celebration in Abuja, clarifying that the incident actually occurred in Niger State.<\/p>\n<p>FCT Police spokesperson, SP Josephine Adeh, in a statement, explained that investigations confirmed the locations cited in the viral reports: Garam, Rafin-Azum, and Tafa Local Government Area, are all within Niger State\u2019s jurisdiction, not the FCT.<\/p>\n<p>She further noted that the Suleja Police Area Command mentioned in the reports falls under the Niger State Police Command.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is therefore incorrect to attribute the unfortunate incident to the FCT, as neither the location nor the responsible police formation is within the Federal Capital Territory,\u201d Adeh stated.<\/p>\n<p>While expressing sympathy to those affected, the Command cautioned media outlets against inaccurate reports that could unnecessarily create panic among Abuja residents.<\/p>\n<p>The police acknowledged that the affected communities share close borders with the FCT but stressed the importance of accurate geographical reporting to avoid public confusion.<\/p>\n<p>FCT Commissioner of Police, CP Ajao Adewale, urged residents to remain calm, stay vigilant, and promptly report any suspicious activities to nearby police formations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Onyeanya Ebere Immaculata &nbsp; The Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Police Command on Monday dismissed reports alleging that two guests were killed during a wedding celebration in Abuja, clarifying that the incident actually occurred in Niger State. FCT Police spokesperson, SP Josephine Adeh, in a statement, explained that investigations confirmed the locations cited in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":76178,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76177","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\/76177","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=76177"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76177\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76179,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76177\/revisions\/76179"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}