{"id":161720,"date":"2019-10-20T16:46:54","date_gmt":"2019-10-20T15:46:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=161720"},"modified":"2019-10-20T16:48:54","modified_gmt":"2019-10-20T15:48:54","slug":"residents-panic-as-lion-escaped-from-cage-in-kano-zoo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=161720","title":{"rendered":"Residents panic as lion escaped from cage in Kano zoo"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><span class=\"ds-1col file file-image file-image-jpeg 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\/10\/Lion-Escapes-From-Cage-In-Nigerian-Zoo-Residents-Live-In-Fear.jpeg\" alt=\"\"><\/span><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"container container-pod container-pod-short\"><span class=\"adunit-parent hide block-module block-module-ad block-module-ad-300x250\"><span class=\"block-module-image-wrapper\"><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>There was panic on Saturday night around Zoo Road in Kano metropolis when a lion escaped from its cage at the Kano Zoological Garden.<\/p>\n<p>The incident happened around 9 pm when the rangers were trying to put it back to its cage after they returned it from the national<br \/>\nagricultural show which took place in Nasarawa state.<\/p>\n<p>A source at the zoological garden told the News Agency of Nigeria that efforts were being made to capture the animal which was still within<br \/>\nthe zoo premises.<\/p>\n<p>Malam Rabiu Lawal, a resident of Zoo Road, told NAN that he had locked up his residence until an announcement was made that the lion has been<br \/>\ncaptured.<\/p>\n<p>\u201dMy entire family members will be indoors even if it will take one month to recover the lion. I have not experienced this kind of fear<br \/>\nsince I packed into this area for more than 15 years,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Residents of the area went indoors earlier than usual to avoid any encounter with the lion.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There was panic on Saturday night around Zoo Road in Kano metropolis when a lion escaped from its cage at the Kano Zoological Garden. The incident happened around 9 pm when the rangers were trying to put it back to its cage after they returned it from the national agricultural show which took place in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":161721,"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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[49,12465,13461],"class_list":["post-161720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-kano","tag-kano-zoo","tag-lion-escapes"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161720","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=161720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161720\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/161721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=161720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=161720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=161720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}