{"id":60306,"date":"2025-02-01T10:12:44","date_gmt":"2025-02-01T10:12:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=60306"},"modified":"2025-02-01T21:29:25","modified_gmt":"2025-02-01T21:29:25","slug":"again-fire-guts-another-popular-market-in-abuja","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/02\/01\/again-fire-guts-another-popular-market-in-abuja\/","title":{"rendered":"Again, Fire Guts Popular Market in Abuja"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Patrick Idowu<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A raging fire engulfed Mpape New Market, Abuja, on Friday, destroying over 40 shops and goods worth more than N60 million.<\/p>\n<p>The inferno, which broke out around 5:25 p.m., caught traders off guard, reducing the once-bustling commercial hub to ruins.<\/p>\n<p>Eyewitnesses described scenes of chaos as shop owners watched helplessly while their livelihoods went up in flames.<\/p>\n<p>The cause of the fire remains unknown, but the incident adds to the growing concerns over market safety in Abuja.<\/p>\n<p>Just recently, a similar fire outbreak devastated Karimo Market, raising alarms over inadequate preventive measures.<\/p>\n<p>Although the swift response of the Fire Service and police helped contain the blaze, stakeholders lamented that the intervention came &#8220;too little, too late.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Patrick Idowu A raging fire engulfed Mpape New Market, Abuja, on Friday, destroying over 40 shops and goods worth more than N60 million. The inferno, which broke out around 5:25 p.m., caught traders off guard, reducing the once-bustling commercial hub to ruins. Eyewitnesses described scenes of chaos as shop owners watched helplessly while their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":60307,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-60306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-abuja-reports","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60306","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=60306"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60335,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60306\/revisions\/60335"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}