{"id":77203,"date":"2025-10-23T09:50:02","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T09:50:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=77203"},"modified":"2025-10-23T09:50:02","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T09:50:02","slug":"dangote-truck-kills-10-in-akungba-akoko","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/10\/23\/dangote-truck-kills-10-in-akungba-akoko\/","title":{"rendered":"Dangote Truck Kills 10 in Akungba-Akoko"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Huldah Shado<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>At least ten people have been confirmed dead after a Dangote Cement truck crashed in Akungba-Akoko, Ondo State, on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n<p>The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), Sector Commander in the state said the accident, which occurred around 7:30 p.m., involved a truck loaded with stone dust and a motorcycle. The truck reportedly lost control and rammed into a barricade near Adekunle Ajasin University.<\/p>\n<p>The victims\u2019 bodies have been deposited at a nearby hospital, while emergency officials work to clear the wreckage.<\/p>\n<p>The commander urged motorists to ensure vehicle safety and drive cautiously during the ember months.<\/p>\n<p>According to Mosadoluwa Ajidagba, Public Relations Officer of the university\u2019s Students\u2019 Union Government, the truck suffered brake failure before hitting the barricade.<\/p>\n<p>He lamented that repeated warnings against heavy-duty trucks using the university road had been ignored, leading to yet another fatal tragedy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Huldah Shado &nbsp; At least ten people have been confirmed dead after a Dangote Cement truck crashed in Akungba-Akoko, Ondo State, on Wednesday night. The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), Sector Commander in the state said the accident, which occurred around 7:30 p.m., involved a truck loaded with stone dust and a motorcycle. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":77204,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77203","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\/77203","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=77203"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77205,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77203\/revisions\/77205"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}