{"id":80053,"date":"2025-12-11T07:22:01","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T07:22:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=80053"},"modified":"2025-12-11T07:22:01","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T07:22:01","slug":"enugu-vigilante-member-remanded-for-alleged-murder-of-cousin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/12\/11\/enugu-vigilante-member-remanded-for-alleged-murder-of-cousin\/","title":{"rendered":"Enugu Vigilante Member Remanded for Alleged Murder of Cousin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Huldah Shado<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>An Enugu State Magistrate Court has ordered the remand of 51-year-old Emeka Emmanuel Nwangwu, a neighbourhood security watch member, over the alleged murder of his 19-year-old cousin, Loveth Uloma Nwangwu, in Nsukka LGA.<\/p>\n<p>The suspect was arraigned on Wednesday following investigations by the State Criminal Investigation Department (CID), conducted under the directive of the Commissioner of Police, Mamman Bitrus Giwa.<\/p>\n<p>State police spokesperson Daniel Ndukwe confirmed the arraignment, saying the suspect faces a one-count charge of murder.<\/p>\n<p>The magistrate ordered Nwangwu remanded at the Enugu Correctional Centre and directed that the case file be sent to the Ministry of Justice for review.<\/p>\n<p>Commissioner Giwa expressed condolences to the family, assuring that justice is underway.<\/p>\n<p>The incident has renewed calls for stricter oversight of neighbourhood security groups and improved community response to emerging threats.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Huldah Shado An Enugu State Magistrate Court has ordered the remand of 51-year-old Emeka Emmanuel Nwangwu, a neighbourhood security watch member, over the alleged murder of his 19-year-old cousin, Loveth Uloma Nwangwu, in Nsukka LGA. The suspect was arraigned on Wednesday following investigations by the State Criminal Investigation Department (CID), conducted under the directive [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":80054,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[181,172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80053","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=80053"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80053\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80055,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80053\/revisions\/80055"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}