{"id":62942,"date":"2025-03-18T13:54:36","date_gmt":"2025-03-18T13:54:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=62942"},"modified":"2025-03-18T13:54:36","modified_gmt":"2025-03-18T13:54:36","slug":"police-arrest-two-over-pipeline-explosion-in-rivers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/03\/18\/police-arrest-two-over-pipeline-explosion-in-rivers\/","title":{"rendered":"Police Arrest Two Over Pipeline Explosion in Rivers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Adenike Lawal<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Rivers State Police Command has arrested two suspects in connection with the Trans-Niger Pipeline explosion that rocked the Bodo community on Monday night.<\/p>\n<p>Police spokesperson Grace Iringe-Iroko confirmed the arrests on Tuesday, stating that an investigation is underway to determine the cause of the explosion and whether it was an act of sabotage.<\/p>\n<p>Security personnel on routine patrol spotted the fire at the border between Kpor and Bodo communities and alerted Shell Petroleum Development Company, which promptly shut down the affected section of the pipeline.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities have since contained the situation, but eyewitnesses reported thick black smoke rising over the mangrove area.<\/p>\n<p>Nigeria\u2019s Minister of Regional Affairs, Abubakar Momoh, assured that a full report will be made public as investigations continue.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Adenike Lawal The Rivers State Police Command has arrested two suspects in connection with the Trans-Niger Pipeline explosion that rocked the Bodo community on Monday night. Police spokesperson Grace Iringe-Iroko confirmed the arrests on Tuesday, stating that an investigation is underway to determine the cause of the explosion and whether it was an act [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":62943,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-62942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62942","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=62942"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62942\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62944,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62942\/revisions\/62944"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}