{"id":79619,"date":"2025-12-03T09:08:37","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T09:08:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=79619"},"modified":"2025-12-03T09:08:37","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T09:08:37","slug":"breaking-inferno-engulfs-jabi-timber-shield","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/12\/03\/breaking-inferno-engulfs-jabi-timber-shield\/","title":{"rendered":"Breaking: Inferno Engulfs Jabi Timber Shield"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Rofiat, Ebere and Patrick<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>An early-morning fire ravaged the Jabi Timber Shield in Abuja on Wednesday, destroying goods worth millions of naira.<\/p>\n<p>Eyewitnesses told Abuja City Journal that the blaze started around 5 a.m., tearing through shops and wood clusters before firefighters arrived about an hour later.<\/p>\n<p>One of the affected traders, Mr. Uchenna Okafor, lamented the delayed response, saying the late arrival of the fire service worsened the damage.<\/p>\n<p>The cause of the inferno had yet to be determined as of press time, but operatives of the FCT Fire Service were on the ground battling to contain the flames and prevent further spread.<\/p>\n<p>Details later&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Rofiat, Ebere and Patrick An early-morning fire ravaged the Jabi Timber Shield in Abuja on Wednesday, destroying goods worth millions of naira. Eyewitnesses told Abuja City Journal that the blaze started around 5 a.m., tearing through shops and wood clusters before firefighters arrived about an hour later. One of the affected traders, Mr. Uchenna [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":79620,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[177,172],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-79619","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\/79619","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=79619"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79619\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79621,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79619\/revisions\/79621"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}