{"id":181899,"date":"2020-01-06T06:58:58","date_gmt":"2020-01-06T05:58:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=181899"},"modified":"2020-01-06T07:03:14","modified_gmt":"2020-01-06T06:03:14","slug":"kaduna-explosion-caused-by-illegal-transfer-petroleum-department-reveals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=181899","title":{"rendered":"Kaduna Explosion Caused By Illegal Transfer, Petroleum Department Reveals"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<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><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\"><span class=\"block-story-object-asset\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/storage\/2020\/01\/Kaduna-Explosion-Caused-By-Illegal-Transfer-Petroleum-Department-Reveals.png\" class=\"media-element file-embedded\" typeof=\"foaf:Image\" alt=\"\"><\/span><\/span><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><\/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 class=\"block-module-image adunit hide\" data-adunit=\"story-300x250-mobile-billboard\" data-adsize=\"300,250\" data-adscreenmax=\"767\"><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Nigeria\u2019s Department of Petroleum Resources has said that an illegal transfer of Liquefied Petroleum Gas caused the explosion that occurred in Kaduna on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>This was revealed by Head, Public Affairs of the agency, Mr Paul Osu, said this in a statement after a preliminary investigation was conducted.<\/p>\n<p>The gas explosion that rocked Sabon Tasha area of Kaduna claimed over five lives as nearby stalls were razed by the fire.<\/p>\n<p>He said, \u201cIn line with our regulatory oversight on the oil and gas industry, the agency immediately mobilised our staff to the scene to investigate the cause of explosion.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe wish to inform the public that we are carrying out further investigations on the incident, and we will update as soon as we conclude.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe appeal to members of the public to continue to assist in reporting the activities of illegal operators to the nearest DPR office.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nigeria\u2019s Department of Petroleum Resources has said that an illegal transfer of Liquefied Petroleum Gas caused the explosion that occurred in Kaduna on Saturday. This was revealed by Head, Public Affairs of the agency, Mr Paul Osu, said this in a statement after a preliminary investigation was conducted. The gas explosion that rocked Sabon Tasha [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"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":[3773,1,3],"tags":[2658,30,4866,1936,10286,13173,218,13919,13918],"class_list":["post-181899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime","category-more","category-news","tag-a","tag-arewa","tag-crime","tag-death","tag-explosion","tag-illegal","tag-kaduna","tag-kill","tag-petroleum"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181899","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=181899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181899\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=181899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=181899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=181899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}