{"id":140210,"date":"2019-08-01T21:03:11","date_gmt":"2019-08-01T20:03:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=140210"},"modified":"2019-08-01T21:03:44","modified_gmt":"2019-08-01T20:03:44","slug":"15-killed-35-missing-in-niger-boat-mishap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=140210","title":{"rendered":"15 Killed, 35 Missing In Niger Boat Mishap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"ds-1col file file-image file-image-png view-mode-embedded centered clearfix block-story-object block-story-object-resource block-story-object-resource-image\"><br \/>\n<span class=\"block-story-object-asset\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"media-element file-embedded\" typeof=\"foaf:Image\" src=\"http:\/\/arewa.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/15-Killed-35-Missing-In-Niger-Boat-Accident.png\" alt=\"\"><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The Niger State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA) has confirmed the death of 15 people involved in a boat accident which occurred on River Malale in Borgu Local Government Area of Niger State.<\/p>\n<p>According to a report, people involved in the accident were returning from Warrah market, a small community in Ngaski Local Government Area of Kebbi State, to Sabo Yumu in Borgu when the disaster occurred.<\/p>\n<p>The SEMA Director-General, Ibrahim Inga, told ChannelsTV the agency got the call for help very late, adding that the incident occurred over the weekend but they heard about it on Tuesday evening.<\/p>\n<p>The SEMA boss said the information reaching him revealed that 50 passengers on the boat were thrown into the water when the boat capsized at the middle of the river. <\/p>\n<p>He added that some of the passengers were rescued while search was ongoing for others, noting that the accident was due to poor visibility and overloading.<\/p>\n<p>Inga, however, said the government was working towards enacting regulatory measures to checkmate the activities of sea transporters, particularly in enforcing the use of safety jackets.<\/p>\n<p>He, however, said more life-jackets would be provided to reduce the number of victims often recorded after the accident.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Niger State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA) has confirmed the death of 15 people involved in a boat accident which occurred on River Malale in Borgu Local Government Area of Niger State. According to a report, people involved in the accident were returning from Warrah market, a small community in Ngaski Local Government Area of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":140211,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1,3],"tags":[5550,56],"class_list":["post-140210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-more","category-news","tag-abubakar-sani-bello","tag-niger"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=140210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140210\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/140211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=140210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=140210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=140210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}