{"id":60200,"date":"2025-01-30T09:55:09","date_gmt":"2025-01-30T09:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=60200"},"modified":"2025-01-30T09:55:09","modified_gmt":"2025-01-30T09:55:09","slug":"bago-warns-against-rising-explosives-firearms-use-among-miners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/01\/30\/bago-warns-against-rising-explosives-firearms-use-among-miners\/","title":{"rendered":"Bago Warns Against Rising Explosives, Firearms Use among Miners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Alexis Uchendu<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Governor Mohammed Umaru Bago has warned of escalating security risks in Niger State due to the rising use of firearms and explosives among artisanal miners.<\/p>\n<p>This follows a deadly dynamite explosion in Sabon-Pegi, Mashegu Local Government Area, that killed three and injured several others.<\/p>\n<p>Bago, visiting the site of the explosion, described it as tragic and preventable.<\/p>\n<p>He highlighted the state\u2019s rich gold and lithium deposits as attracting illegal miners who store explosives and weapons, exacerbating security threats.<\/p>\n<p>The governor urged locals to surrender dangerous materials to a designated security committee for safe storage.<\/p>\n<p>He also announced a N174 million relief package for the victims.<\/p>\n<p>Minister of Information Mohammed Idris, representing President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, condemned the incident as avoidable and called for intensified awareness campaigns.<\/p>\n<p>The explosion affected 69 people, destroying houses and vehicles.<\/p>\n<p>In response, the Mashegu LGA has imposed a temporary mining ban, with calls for neighboring Magama LGA to follow suit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Alexis Uchendu Governor Mohammed Umaru Bago has warned of escalating security risks in Niger State due to the rising use of firearms and explosives among artisanal miners. This follows a deadly dynamite explosion in Sabon-Pegi, Mashegu Local Government Area, that killed three and injured several others. Bago, visiting the site of the explosion, described [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":60201,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[181],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-60200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60200","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\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60200"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60200\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60202,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60200\/revisions\/60202"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}