{"id":83030,"date":"2026-02-25T14:12:15","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T14:12:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=83030"},"modified":"2026-02-25T14:12:15","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T14:12:15","slug":"gunmen-abduct-six-worshippers-at-ondo-church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2026\/02\/25\/gunmen-abduct-six-worshippers-at-ondo-church\/","title":{"rendered":"Gunmen Abduct Six Worshippers at Ondo Church"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Patrick Idowu<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Gunmen have abducted six worshippers at a Celestial Church of Christ in Uso, Owo Local Government Area of Ondo State.<\/p>\n<p>The attack occurred around 12:50 a.m. on Wednesday during a night service, police said. The incident comes days after a couple was abducted in Ilu-Abo community, Akure North LGA, amid rising security concerns in the state.<\/p>\n<p>Police spokesperson Jimoh Abayomi said operatives, in collaboration with the Nigerian Army and local vigilantes, launched a rescue operation shortly after receiving the report.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne of the kidnapped victims has been rescued, while one suspect has been arrested and is assisting ongoing investigations,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Abayomi assured that efforts were ongoing to secure the release of the remaining victims and apprehend other perpetrators, urging residents to remain calm and provide credible information to security agencies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Patrick Idowu Gunmen have abducted six worshippers at a Celestial Church of Christ in Uso, Owo Local Government Area of Ondo State. The attack occurred around 12:50 a.m. on Wednesday during a night service, police said. The incident comes days after a couple was abducted in Ilu-Abo community, Akure North LGA, amid rising security [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":83031,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1724,172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83030","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\/83030","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\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83030"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83030\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83032,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83030\/revisions\/83032"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}