{"id":78267,"date":"2025-11-06T14:04:38","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T14:04:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=78267"},"modified":"2025-11-06T14:04:38","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T14:04:38","slug":"plateau-govt-mourns-jos-train-crash-victims-urges-safety-compliance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/11\/06\/plateau-govt-mourns-jos-train-crash-victims-urges-safety-compliance\/","title":{"rendered":"Plateau Govt Mourns Jos Train Crash Victims, Urges Safety Compliance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Onilede Titi Faith<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Plateau State Government has commiserated with families of victims of Wednesday\u2019s train accident at Phototek Junction in the Abattoir area of Jos South.<\/p>\n<p>A tricycle rider and a passenger died when the tricycle reportedly attempted to cross the track as a passenger train from Bukuru to Jos approached.<\/p>\n<p>Commissioner for Transportation, Hon. Davou Gyang, described the incident as a tragic reminder of the need for strict adherence to traffic and rail safety rules.<\/p>\n<p>He said the ministry is working with the Nigerian Railway Corporation and other agencies to investigate the crash and prevent a recurrence.<\/p>\n<p>Gyang urged motorists and pedestrians to obey safety signals at rail crossings, reaffirming the government\u2019s commitment to transport safety through public education and law enforcement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Onilede Titi Faith &nbsp; The Plateau State Government has commiserated with families of victims of Wednesday\u2019s train accident at Phototek Junction in the Abattoir area of Jos South. A tricycle rider and a passenger died when the tricycle reportedly attempted to cross the track as a passenger train from Bukuru to Jos approached. Commissioner [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":78268,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78267","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\/78267","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=78267"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78267\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78269,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78267\/revisions\/78269"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}