{"id":1058,"date":"2026-10-25T09:45:45","date_gmt":"2026-10-25T09:45:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/25\/police-arrest-tiler-over-death-of-hotel-worker-in-abuja\/"},"modified":"2026-10-25T09:45:45","modified_gmt":"2026-10-25T09:45:45","slug":"police-arrest-tiler-over-death-of-hotel-worker-in-abuja","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/25\/police-arrest-tiler-over-death-of-hotel-worker-in-abuja\/","title":{"rendered":"Police arrest tiler over death of hotel worker in Abuja"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Federal Capital Territory Police Command has arrested one Samuel Net for suspected homicide at a hotel within the Utako District of the FCT.\n<\/p>\n<p>According to a statement issued on Sunday by the command\u2019s spokesperson in Abuja, Josephine Adeh, the Utako Divisional Police Headquarters\u00a0received a distress report from the hotel in the early hours of Tuesday, October 20, 2026.\n<\/p>\n<p>After its operatives went to the hotel, they found Net, who worked as a tiler and was hired by the hotel, with marks of violence on his body. Same with one of the hotel\u2019s staff members identified as Joseph Terdoo.\n<\/p>\n<p>Investigations later revealed that Net and Terdoo had a disagreement, leading to Terdoo\u2019s collapse and subsequent death.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn Tuesday, 20th October 2026, at about 05:00 am, a distress report was received at Utako Divisional Police Headquarters reporting suspicious noise and activity on the third floor of a hotel within Utako District of the FCT. Responding swiftly, a team of police officers from Utako Division was promptly dispatched to the scene.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUpon arrival, the source of the noise was traced to Room 301, where one Samuel Net, a tiler hired by the hotel, was found with marks of violence on his body, while another person, identified as Joseph Terdoo, a staff member of the hotel, was found lying unconscious on the floor with multiple marks of violence on his body. <\/p>\n<div class=\"read-also\">\n<header>Related News<\/header>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\u201cJoseph Terdoo was immediately rushed to Wuse District Hospital, where he was confirmed dead on arrival by the medical team on duty.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFurther investigations revealed that the two men had a disagreement which degenerated into a physical confrontation. Samuel pushed Joseph, who fell and hit his head on a wooden object; he fell and collapsed,\u201d the statement read.\n<\/p>\n<p>The command\u2019s spokesperson stated that the FCT Commissioner of Police, Ahmed Sanusi, advised residents to \u201cshun violence and self-help during disagreements.\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe, therefore, enjoins FCT residents to embrace peace and diplomacy in resolving disputes.\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFCT residents are encouraged to report suspicious persons or activities to the nearest police station or contact the Command through its emergency numbers: 08032003913 and 08061581938.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>Source: <\/p>\n<div class=\"nSourse\">Punch Newspapers &#8211; Latest News<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Federal Capital Territory Police Command has arrested one Samuel Net for suspected homicide at a hotel within the Utako District of the FCT. According to a statement issued on&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1058"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1058\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}