{"id":60668,"date":"2025-02-06T12:27:59","date_gmt":"2025-02-06T12:27:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=60668"},"modified":"2025-02-06T12:27:59","modified_gmt":"2025-02-06T12:27:59","slug":"tinubu-commiserates-with-families-of-17-burnt-children-in-zamfara-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/02\/06\/tinubu-commiserates-with-families-of-17-burnt-children-in-zamfara-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Tinubu Commiserates with Families of 17 Burnt Children in Zamfara"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Gabriella Ogbu<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>President Bola Tinubu has extended condolences to the families of 17 children who lost their lives in a fire outbreak at an Islamic school in Kaura Namoda, Zamfara State.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement by his Special Adviser on Information and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga, Tinubu mourned the tragic loss and wished 15 injured victims a swift recovery.<\/p>\n<p>He also sympathized with the Zamfara State Government and the school\u2019s proprietors.<\/p>\n<p>The fire, reportedly caused by burning corn stalks, broke out around 2:00 AM while the pupils were sleeping.<\/p>\n<p>Despite rescue efforts, 17 Almajiri students perished, and several others sustained injuries.<\/p>\n<p>President Tinubu emphasized the need for stricter safety measures in schools, urging educational authorities to enforce compliance and prevent similar tragedies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Gabriella Ogbu President Bola Tinubu has extended condolences to the families of 17 children who lost their lives in a fire outbreak at an Islamic school in Kaura Namoda, Zamfara State. In a statement by his Special Adviser on Information and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga, Tinubu mourned the tragic loss and wished 15 injured victims [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":60669,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60668","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\/60668","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=60668"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60668\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60670,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60668\/revisions\/60670"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}