{"id":65528,"date":"2025-05-10T02:43:24","date_gmt":"2025-05-10T02:43:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=65528"},"modified":"2025-05-10T02:43:24","modified_gmt":"2025-05-10T02:43:24","slug":"flames-rip-through-avenue-mall-in-abuja","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/05\/10\/flames-rip-through-avenue-mall-in-abuja\/","title":{"rendered":"Flames Rip Through Avenue Mall in Abuja"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Ifeoluwa Odunayo<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Panic gripped Wuse 2 in Abuja on Thursday as a fire erupted at The Avenue Mall, sending thick black smoke into the sky and drawing a stunned crowd of onlookers.<\/p>\n<p>The blaze, which broke out at 27 Alexandria Crescent near Newton Park, quickly consumed parts of the building, as captured in a now viral video posted on X.<\/p>\n<p>The footage shows fierce flames shooting out of the structure while passersby stood in disbelief.<\/p>\n<p>At press time, the cause of the fire remained unknown and emergency responders had yet to release an official update.<\/p>\n<p>There was also no immediate confirmation of casualties or the full scale of the destruction.<\/p>\n<p>Details are still emerging as efforts to contain the inferno continue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Ifeoluwa Odunayo Panic gripped Wuse 2 in Abuja on Thursday as a fire erupted at The Avenue Mall, sending thick black smoke into the sky and drawing a stunned crowd of onlookers. The blaze, which broke out at 27 Alexandria Crescent near Newton Park, quickly consumed parts of the building, as captured in a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":65529,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[177,172],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-65528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-abuja-reports","category-news","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65528","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=65528"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65528\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65530,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65528\/revisions\/65530"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}