{"id":49246,"date":"2024-09-16T15:05:38","date_gmt":"2024-09-16T15:05:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/28-year-old-man-found-dead-with-slit-throat-in-yobe\/"},"modified":"2024-09-16T15:05:38","modified_gmt":"2024-09-16T15:05:38","slug":"28-year-old-man-found-dead-with-slit-throat-in-yobe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/28-year-old-man-found-dead-with-slit-throat-in-yobe\/","title":{"rendered":"28-year-old man found dead with slit throat in Yobe"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The Yobe State Police Command says the body of a 25-year-old man murdered by unknown persons has been recovered in the Nayi-Nawa area of Damaturu.<\/p>\n<p>The Command\u2019s Public Relations Officer, DSP Dungus Abdulkarim, disclosed this in a statement on Monday, noting that the deceased was identified as Lawan Adamu.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn September 15, at about 2230hrs, \u2018A\u2019 Division Police Headquarters, Damaturu, received a distress call reporting a corpse with deep cuts. Police arrived to find the victim with deep throat cuts and multiple stab wounds. A blood-stained knife was recovered at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe body was removed to General Hospital Damaturu, where it was confirmed dead by a medical doctor. The corpse has been deposited at the hospital morgue,\u201d Abdulkarim said.<\/p>\n<p>According to him deliberate efforts by operatives of \u2018A\u2019 Division led to the arrest of a prime suspect, one Yunusa Isa (AKA Abba) aged 24.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Commissioner of Police, CP Garba Ahmed, has directed detectives to expand their investigation to unravel the circumstances behind the incident,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>The Command assured the public that the investigation will be swift and thorough as justice will certainly be served accordingly.<\/p>\n<p>28-year-old man found dead with slit throat in Yobe<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Yobe State Police Command says the body of a 25-year-old man murdered by unknown persons has been recovered in&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":49247,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[384,15,723],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-metro","category-news","category-yobe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49246\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}