{"id":36408,"date":"2024-06-26T15:10:24","date_gmt":"2024-06-26T15:10:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=36408"},"modified":"2024-06-26T15:10:24","modified_gmt":"2024-06-26T15:10:24","slug":"breaking-fire-reportedly-razes-dangote-refinery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2024\/06\/26\/breaking-fire-reportedly-razes-dangote-refinery\/","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING: Fire Reportedly Razes Dangote Refinery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A major fire outbreak occurred at the Dangote refinery in the Ibeju-Lekki area of Lagos State on Wednesday, accompanied by explosions.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>As of the time of this report, the Dangote Group has yet to release an official statement regarding the incident.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Africa\u2019s richest man, Aliko Dangote, previously disclosed that he faced significant resistance from a powerful group of local and foreign mafias while establishing the $19 billion refinery. Speaking at the Afreximbank annual meeting and AfriCaribbean Trade and Investment Forum in the Bahamas, Dangote said he never anticipated such intense opposition.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Recently, Anambra South Senator Ifeanyi Ubah remarked that Dangote\u2019s refinery would contribute to a reduction in the pump price of petroleum products. He stated that once Nigerian oil refineries begin operating at full capacity, fuel prices would decrease.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A major fire outbreak occurred at the Dangote refinery in the Ibeju-Lekki area of Lagos State on Wednesday, accompanied by explosions. &nbsp; As of the time of this report, the Dangote Group has yet to release an official statement regarding the incident. &nbsp; Africa\u2019s richest man, Aliko Dangote, previously disclosed that he faced significant resistance [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":36410,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36408","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\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36408"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36408\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36411,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36408\/revisions\/36411"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}