{"id":76351,"date":"2025-10-09T11:44:54","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T11:44:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=76351"},"modified":"2025-10-09T11:44:54","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T11:44:54","slug":"12-arrested-over-killing-of-arise-news-anchor-in-abuja","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/10\/09\/12-arrested-over-killing-of-arise-news-anchor-in-abuja\/","title":{"rendered":"12 Arrested Over Killing of ARISE News Anchor in Abuja"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Onyeanya Ebere Immaculata<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Police Command has arrested 12 suspects in connection with the killing of ARISE News anchor, Somtochukwu Christella Maduagwu, and a security guard, Barnabas Danlami, during a robbery at Unique Apartments, Gishiri, Katampe District, Abuja.<\/p>\n<p>Police said weapons and mobile phones were recovered from the suspects.<\/p>\n<p>Maduagwu, a 29-year-old lawyer and broadcaster, was killed during a break-in at her residence on September 29, 2025, sparking widespread outrage and calls for justice.<\/p>\n<p>ARISE TV described her as a valued team member and urged security agencies to ensure swift prosecution of those responsible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Onyeanya Ebere Immaculata &nbsp; The Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Police Command has arrested 12 suspects in connection with the killing of ARISE News anchor, Somtochukwu Christella Maduagwu, and a security guard, Barnabas Danlami, during a robbery at Unique Apartments, Gishiri, Katampe District, Abuja. Police said weapons and mobile phones were recovered from the suspects. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":76352,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[181,172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76351","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\/76351","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=76351"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76351\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76353,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76351\/revisions\/76353"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}