{"id":168378,"date":"2019-11-16T17:13:17","date_gmt":"2019-11-16T16:13:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=168378"},"modified":"2019-11-16T17:13:43","modified_gmt":"2019-11-16T16:13:43","slug":"fire-guts-20-potash-shops-in-yobe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=168378","title":{"rendered":"Fire guts 20 potash shops in Yobe"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">An early morning fire has razed down about 20 shops loaded with potash at Gashau market in Bade local government area of Yobe state.<\/p>\n<p>Yobe State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA) confirmed the incident noting that, the inferno occurred at about 3:50 Am of Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cReports from our team in the field observed that over 20 stalls containing different quantities of bags of potash were burned down.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe incident happened around 3:50 am and affected all the shops overnight.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-734702\" src=\"http:\/\/arewa.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Fire-guts-20-potash-shops-in-Yobe-PHOTOS.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"470\" height=\"626\"><\/p>\n<p>\u201cPotash is one industry that is key in employment and has been supporting households across Gashua and a key business in Yobe State\u201d, SEMA said.<\/p>\n<p>According to the agency, Governor Mai Mala Buni has given it a green light to respond within the shortest possible time and bring succor to the affected individuals.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe commiserate with the victims of Gashua Fire Disaster.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-734701\" src=\"http:\/\/arewa.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/1573919306_187_Fire-guts-20-potash-shops-in-Yobe-PHOTOS.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"495\"><\/p>\n<p>\u201cSEMA as Directed by His Excellency Governor Mai Mala Buni, will respond accordingly\u201d, it said.<\/p>\n<p>Gashua is the hometown of the incumbent Senate President Ahmed Lawal and is one of the densely populated local government areas in Yobe state.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-734699\" src=\"http:\/\/arewa.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/1573919306_972_Fire-guts-20-potash-shops-in-Yobe-PHOTOS.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"498\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An early morning fire has razed down about 20 shops loaded with potash at Gashau market in Bade local government area of Yobe state. Yobe State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA) confirmed the incident noting that, the inferno occurred at about 3:50 Am of Saturday. \u201cReports from our team in the field observed that over 20 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":168379,"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":[1],"tags":[2658,13606,359],"class_list":["post-168378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-more","tag-a","tag-fire-out-break","tag-yobe"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168378","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=168378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168378\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/168379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=168378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=168378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=168378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}