{"id":55174,"date":"2018-10-24T23:37:47","date_gmt":"2018-10-24T22:37:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=55174"},"modified":"2018-10-24T23:39:41","modified_gmt":"2018-10-24T22:39:41","slug":"lightning-strikes-man-to-death-in-ondo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=55174","title":{"rendered":"Lightning strikes man to death in Ondo"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Tragedy has struck in the agrarian community of Ifira Akoko in Akoko South East local government area of Ondo State following the killing of a middle aged man by lightning.<\/p>\n

The man, who has been identified as Ramoni Aluko, a timber trader, was said to have been killed by the lightning while cutting an Iroko tree in the forest.<\/p>\n

Confirming the incident the Divisional Police Officer, Isua Akoko, Biodun Ojediran stated that Aluko and his partner were in the farm when the incident occurred.<\/p>\n

\u201cTwo of them went to a farm at Ifira Akoko when the incident happened and only Mr Aluko died,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

It was gathered that after the incident, people of Ifira contacted the sango worshipers as it was a taboo to touch such corpse.<\/p>\n

Controversy later occurred over where to bury the deceased.<\/p>\n

It was disclosed that the victim is from Supare in Akoko South West local government as he only stayed at Ifira for his timber business.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the Asiwaju of Ifira Akoko, Chief Boboye Ojomo described the late Aluko as a nice, hardworking gentleman that will be missed in the area.\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tragedy has struck in the agrarian community of Ifira Akoko in Akoko South East local government area of Ondo State following the killing of a middle aged man by lightning. The man, who has been identified as Ramoni Aluko, a timber trader, was said to have been killed by the lightning while cutting an Iroko […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12419,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[6801],"class_list":["post-55174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-lightning"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55174\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}