{"id":76554,"date":"2025-10-13T07:35:59","date_gmt":"2025-10-13T07:35:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=76554"},"modified":"2025-10-13T07:35:59","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T07:35:59","slug":"gunmen-kill-nigerian-worker-in-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/10\/13\/gunmen-kill-nigerian-worker-in-south-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"Gunmen Kill Nigerian Worker in South Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Adeola Samuel<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A Nigerian identified as Chimezie has been shot dead by gunmen at a bar in Durban, South Africa.<\/p>\n<p>The incident occurred around 10:30 p.m. on Thursday while the victim, who worked at the bar, was serving customers.<\/p>\n<p>Eyewitnesses said two men entered the bar, spoke briefly with him, and then opened fire. Chimezie reportedly died on the spot, and the attack is suspected to be cult-related.<\/p>\n<p>The President of the Nigerian Union in South Africa, Mr. Smart Nwobi, confirmed the killing, saying the union is working with local authorities to curb gang-related attacks.<\/p>\n<p>No arrests have been made as investigations continue.<\/p>\n<p>The killing adds to a growing list of Nigerians murdered in South Africa. In July, two others identified as Austin and Ayo, were similarly shot dead in Durban.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Adeola Samuel &nbsp; A Nigerian identified as Chimezie has been shot dead by gunmen at a bar in Durban, South Africa. The incident occurred around 10:30 p.m. on Thursday while the victim, who worked at the bar, was serving customers. Eyewitnesses said two men entered the bar, spoke briefly with him, and then opened [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":76555,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76554","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\/76554","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=76554"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76554\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76556,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76554\/revisions\/76556"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}