{"id":77455,"date":"2025-10-25T10:29:05","date_gmt":"2025-10-25T10:29:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=77455"},"modified":"2025-10-25T10:29:05","modified_gmt":"2025-10-25T10:29:05","slug":"security-operatives-avert-tanker-explosion-in-kogi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/10\/25\/security-operatives-avert-tanker-explosion-in-kogi\/","title":{"rendered":"Security Operatives Avert Tanker Explosion in Kogi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Sarah Sam Adda<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Swift action by security operatives on Friday evening averted a fuel tanker disaster along the Felele Expressway in Kogi State.<\/p>\n<p>FRSC Sector Commander, Tenimu Etuku, said the incident occurred around 5 p.m. when the tank of a truck heading to Abuja detached and rolled into a ditch at the Crusher area.<\/p>\n<p>No lives were lost as the driver and his assistant escaped unhurt.<\/p>\n<p>Etuku said FRSC officials, police, NSCDC, and mobile police units promptly secured the area to prevent residents from scooping fuel.<\/p>\n<p>He urged the community to avoid risky behaviour, recalling the recent Niger State tanker explosion that killed over 40 people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Sarah Sam Adda &nbsp; Swift action by security operatives on Friday evening averted a fuel tanker disaster along the Felele Expressway in Kogi State. FRSC Sector Commander, Tenimu Etuku, said the incident occurred around 5 p.m. when the tank of a truck heading to Abuja detached and rolled into a ditch at the Crusher [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":77456,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77455","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\/77455","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=77455"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77455\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77457,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77455\/revisions\/77457"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}