{"id":79499,"date":"2025-12-01T10:10:38","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T10:10:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=79499"},"modified":"2025-12-01T10:10:38","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T10:10:38","slug":"terrorists-abduct-pastor-wife-worshippers-during-kogi-church-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/12\/01\/terrorists-abduct-pastor-wife-worshippers-during-kogi-church-service\/","title":{"rendered":"Terrorists Abduct Pastor, Wife, Worshippers During Kogi Church Service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Merciful Omoba<\/p>\n<p>Suspected bandits on Sunday stormed a Cherubim and Seraphim Church in Ejiba, Yagba West LGA of Kogi State, abducting the pastor, his wife and several worshippers during a service.<\/p>\n<p>Witnesses told journalists that the attackers struck suddenly, triggering panic as worshippers fled amid heavy gunfire.<\/p>\n<p>The pastor, popularly known as Orlando, was taken alongside his wife and others, leaving the community in shock.<\/p>\n<p>Confirming the incident, Kogi State Commissioner for Information, Kingsley Fanwo, said security agencies and local vigilantes had launched a manhunt for the kidnappers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe authorities of Yagba West and security operatives are working to ensure those kidnapped are rescued alive,\u201d he said, adding that Governor Ahmed Usman Ododo is coordinating the operation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Merciful Omoba Suspected bandits on Sunday stormed a Cherubim and Seraphim Church in Ejiba, Yagba West LGA of Kogi State, abducting the pastor, his wife and several worshippers during a service. Witnesses told journalists that the attackers struck suddenly, triggering panic as worshippers fled amid heavy gunfire. The pastor, popularly known as Orlando, was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":79500,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[181,182],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","category-defence-and-security"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79499","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\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79499"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79499\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79501,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79499\/revisions\/79501"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}