{"id":78913,"date":"2025-11-18T16:53:25","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T16:53:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=78913"},"modified":"2025-11-18T16:53:25","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T16:53:25","slug":"soldier-dies-in-lagos-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/11\/18\/soldier-dies-in-lagos-attack\/","title":{"rendered":"Soldier Dies in Lagos Attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Onyeanya Ebere Immaculata<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A Nigerian Army soldier on internal security duty in Imota, Ikorodu, Lagos, has died after being struck on the head with a heavy log by a man reportedly showing signs of mental instability.<\/p>\n<p>The incident occurred on Sunday, November 16, 2025, around 4:00 p.m., while the soldier was trying to calm a chaotic situation.<\/p>\n<p>Fellow soldiers quickly intervened, neutralising the attacker and recovering the soldier\u2019s weapon, the army confirmed in a statement on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The injured soldier was rushed to Ikorodu General Hospital but was pronounced dead.<\/p>\n<p>He was later buried according to Islamic rites in a ceremony attended by senior officers of his unit.<\/p>\n<p>The Nigerian Army expressed condolences to the soldier\u2019s family and colleagues, praised his service, and said an investigation into the attack has begun, urging the public to report suspicious activities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Onyeanya Ebere Immaculata A Nigerian Army soldier on internal security duty in Imota, Ikorodu, Lagos, has died after being struck on the head with a heavy log by a man reportedly showing signs of mental instability. The incident occurred on Sunday, November 16, 2025, around 4:00 p.m., while the soldier was trying to calm [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":78914,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1724,172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-insecurity","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78913","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=78913"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78913\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78915,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78913\/revisions\/78915"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}