{"id":76451,"date":"2025-10-11T12:31:59","date_gmt":"2025-10-11T12:31:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=76451"},"modified":"2025-10-11T12:31:59","modified_gmt":"2025-10-11T12:31:59","slug":"nfss-police-arrest-robbery-suspects-linked-to-killing-of-arise-news-staff-in-abuja","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/10\/11\/nfss-police-arrest-robbery-suspects-linked-to-killing-of-arise-news-staff-in-abuja\/","title":{"rendered":"NFSS, Police Arrest Robbery Suspects Linked to Killing of Arise News Staff in Abuja"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Onilede Titi Faith<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Nigerian Forest Security Service (NFSS), has said its operatives assisted the police in arresting suspects connected to the killing of Arise News staff member, Somtochukwu Maduagwu, and a security guard, Barnabas Danlami, during a robbery in Abuja.<\/p>\n<p>Assistant Commander General of NFSS (North Central), Abdulhakeem Ibrahim, told journalists on Saturday that the arrests followed a joint operation targeting a gang terrorising Zuba and nearby communities.<\/p>\n<p>The FCT Police Command had earlier confirmed the arrest of 12 suspects in connection with the attack at Unique Apartment, Gishiri Village, Katampe District.<\/p>\n<p>Ibrahim said the gang was intercepted at a checkpoint manned by NFSS operatives under police directives, leading to the arrest of one suspect and recovery of arms, including an AK-47, a pump-action gun, and a Beretta pistol.<\/p>\n<p>He praised the collaboration between the NFSS and the police, calling for legal recognition and government support to enhance the agency\u2019s operations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Onilede Titi Faith &nbsp; The Nigerian Forest Security Service (NFSS), has said its operatives assisted the police in arresting suspects connected to the killing of Arise News staff member, Somtochukwu Maduagwu, and a security guard, Barnabas Danlami, during a robbery in Abuja. Assistant Commander General of NFSS (North Central), Abdulhakeem Ibrahim, told journalists on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":76454,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76451","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\/76451","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\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76451"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76451\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76455,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76451\/revisions\/76455"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}