{"id":76465,"date":"2025-10-11T13:23:23","date_gmt":"2025-10-11T13:23:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=76465"},"modified":"2025-10-11T13:23:23","modified_gmt":"2025-10-11T13:23:23","slug":"arise-news-announces-burial-arrangements-for-late-anchor-somto-maduagwu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/10\/11\/arise-news-announces-burial-arrangements-for-late-anchor-somto-maduagwu\/","title":{"rendered":"ARISE News Announces Burial Arrangements for Late Anchor Somto Maduagwu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Onilede Titi Faith<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>ARISE News has announced the burial arrangements for its late anchor and producer, Somtochukwu Christelle Maduagwu, who was killed during a robbery attack in Abuja on September 29, 2025.<\/p>\n<p>According to the station, an evening of tributes will hold on Sunday, October 12, at the THISDAY Dome, Abuja, followed by a service of songs on Wednesday, October 15, at Corpus Christi Cathedral, Port Harcourt.<\/p>\n<p>The funeral mass will take place at St. Theresa Catholic Church, Agulu, Anambra State, on Saturday, October 18, after which she will be laid to rest.<\/p>\n<p>Maduagwu, 29, was a lawyer, model, and journalist before her untimely death alongside a security guard, Barnabas Danlami, during the attack at her Katampe residence in Abuja.<\/p>\n<p>The FCT Police Command has arrested 12 suspects linked to the incident. Police spokesperson SP Josephine Adeh said the gang obtained weapons from a supplier in the Niger Republic and has confessed to the crime.<\/p>\n<p>Tributes have continued to pour in for Maduagwu, described by colleagues and viewers as a brilliant and fearless journalist whose legacy will endure in the Nigerian media industry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Onilede Titi Faith &nbsp; ARISE News has announced the burial arrangements for its late anchor and producer, Somtochukwu Christelle Maduagwu, who was killed during a robbery attack in Abuja on September 29, 2025. According to the station, an evening of tributes will hold on Sunday, October 12, at the THISDAY Dome, Abuja, followed by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":76352,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76465","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\/76465","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=76465"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76465\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76466,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76465\/revisions\/76466"}],"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=76465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}