{"id":210550,"date":"2025-10-20T12:45:02","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T10:45:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-police-confirm-death-of-serial-murder-suspect-in-benue\/"},"modified":"2025-10-20T12:45:02","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T10:45:02","slug":"nigeria-police-confirm-death-of-serial-murder-suspect-in-benue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-police-confirm-death-of-serial-murder-suspect-in-benue\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: Police Confirm Death of Serial Murder Suspect in Benue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"20\">The police command in Benue has confirmed the death of one Saater Aii of Wannune, Tarka Local Government Area (LGA).<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"20\">The command&#8217;s spokesperson, DSP Udeme Edet, made the disclosure in a statement made available to newsmen on Monday in Makurdi.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"41\">Edet said the suspect, before his death, was wanted for the alleged assassination of the Tarka LG Hunters&#8217; Commander, Mr Aondoakaa Yayol, who was killed on 20th June, and his wife, Mrs Kashimana Yayol, who was killed on 11th February 2023.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n  <span style=\"font-size: 110%;\"><br \/>\nFollow us on&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202510200180.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Nigeria\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/nigeria\/\">Nigeria<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The police command in Benue has confirmed the death of one Saater Aii of Wannune, Tarka Local Government Area (LGA). The command&#8217;s spokesperson, DSP Udeme Edet, made the disclosure in a statement made available to newsmen on Monday in Makurdi. Edet said the suspect, before his death, was wanted for the alleged assassination of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":210551,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[258,256,8937,7041,6974,304,257,4687,393,662,8952,254,6550],"class_list":["post-210550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-benue","tag-confirm","tag-death","tag-murder","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-police","tag-serial","tag-south-africa-today","tag-suspect"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210550\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/210551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}