{"id":79629,"date":"2025-12-03T15:20:04","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T15:20:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=79629"},"modified":"2025-12-03T15:20:04","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T15:20:04","slug":"jabi-inferno-aftermath-weve-lost-everything-shop-owners-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/12\/03\/jabi-inferno-aftermath-weve-lost-everything-shop-owners-say\/","title":{"rendered":"Jabi Inferno Aftermath: \u2018We\u2019ve Lost Everything,\u2019 Shop Owners Say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Patrick Idowu, Onyeanya Ebere Immaculata, Olokuta Rofiat<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Shop owners who lost their businesses in the fire that gutted Jabi Timber Shield on Wednesday morning have appealed to the government for urgent support.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to Abuja City Journal, some victims described the inferno as a devastating blow that destroyed their only means of livelihood.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Caleb, a wood seller, said he could not estimate the total loss because new stock had just been delivered the previous night.<\/p>\n<p>Another shop owner, Mr. Adams, lamented the setback, saying, \u201cI don\u2019t know where to start. I began this business just a few years ago, worked tirelessly to grow it, and now I have to start all over again.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The affected traders are urging the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), administration to provide immediate assistance to help them recover from the disaster.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Patrick Idowu, Onyeanya Ebere Immaculata, Olokuta Rofiat Shop owners who lost their businesses in the fire that gutted Jabi Timber Shield on Wednesday morning have appealed to the government for urgent support. Speaking to Abuja City Journal, some victims described the inferno as a devastating blow that destroyed their only means of livelihood. Mr. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":79630,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79629","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\/79629","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=79629"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79629\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79631,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79629\/revisions\/79631"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}