{"id":73512,"date":"2025-08-18T16:24:39","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T16:24:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=73512"},"modified":"2025-08-18T16:24:39","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T16:24:39","slug":"police-recover-unexploded-bomb-on-farmland-in-borno","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/08\/18\/police-recover-unexploded-bomb-on-farmland-in-borno\/","title":{"rendered":"Police Recover Unexploded Bomb on Farmland in Borno"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Onyeanya Ebere Immaculata<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Borno State Police Command has recovered an unexploded ordnance (UXO), from a farmland in Dikwa Local Government Area, following a report by a local farmer.<\/p>\n<p>Police spokesperson ASP Nahum Daso said in a statement on Monday that the discovery was made after a farmer, Babagana Kachalla, noticed a suspicious object and alerted authorities.<\/p>\n<p>Commissioner of Police, CP Naziru Abdulmajid, promptly deployed the Commander of the Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD), Base 13 in Maiduguri and his team to the scene.<\/p>\n<p>The UXO, identified as a Cluster Bomb Unit (CBU), measuring about 2.2 meters in length and 30 centimeters in width, was found partially buried.<\/p>\n<p>The area was cordoned off in line with EOD-CBRN safety protocols before the bomb was neutralized.<\/p>\n<p>The EOD team carried out an in-situ demolition and safely extracted the cluster munition components without incident.<\/p>\n<p>The police also sensitized members of the Dikwa community on Explosive Ordnance Risk Awareness (EORA), to enhance public safety in case of similar discoveries.<\/p>\n<p>The Command urged residents to remain vigilant and promptly report suspicious objects or activities to the nearest police station.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Onyeanya Ebere Immaculata The Borno State Police Command has recovered an unexploded ordnance (UXO), from a farmland in Dikwa Local Government Area, following a report by a local farmer. Police spokesperson ASP Nahum Daso said in a statement on Monday that the discovery was made after a farmer, Babagana Kachalla, noticed a suspicious object [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":73363,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[184,172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73512","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\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73512"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73512\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73513,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73512\/revisions\/73513"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}