{"id":1373,"date":"2025-01-20T19:47:01","date_gmt":"2025-01-20T19:47:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/?p=1373"},"modified":"2025-01-20T19:48:33","modified_gmt":"2025-01-20T19:48:33","slug":"petrol-tanker-explosion-gov-bago-gives-100-victims-nass-burial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/2025\/01\/20\/petrol-tanker-explosion-gov-bago-gives-100-victims-nass-burial\/","title":{"rendered":"Petrol Tanker Explosion: Gov. Bago gives 100 victims\u00a0 mass burial\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A total of one hundred victims of the Dikko Tanker explosion in Gurara Local Government area have been given mass burial in the Dikko area of Gurara Local Government.<\/div>\n
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The tanker explosion which occurred\u00a0 on Saturday\u00a0 along Dikko, Minna High ways\u00a0 claimed a total of one hundred persons lives while several other sustained degrees of injury.<\/div>\n
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Governor Umar Mohammed Bago who had earlier visited the scene of the explosion called on the Federal Government to expedite action in the completion of Minna Suleja road which has been abandoned several years ago.<\/div>\n
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\u00a0 Already,Niger State Government has directed that no vehicle coming from Maje axis should be allowed to pass through Dikko bridge.<\/div>\n
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Farmer Governor Mohammed Umaru Bago gave the directive when he visited the scene of tanker explosion around Dikko junction, Gurara local government area of Niger State<\/div>\n
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The farmer Governor, who decried the recklessness of some drivers, said it is not acceptable for any vehicle coming from Maje to pass through the bridge, rather they should follow under the bridge and take a U-turn appropriately.<\/div>\n
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He enjoined the Sector Commander of the Federal Road Safety Corps to establish a detachment in the area to ensure the enforcement of the directive, while calling on all relevant transport Unions to cooperate with the Road Safety Corps.<\/div>\n
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The farmer Governor described the tanker explosion which has claimed many lives as pathetic thanking God that the tragic incident did not extend to the adjoining communities<\/div>\n
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He called on the Federal Government to expedite action to complete the Minna-Suleja road as the delay in the road project is contributing to the continuous loss of many lives.<\/div>\n
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The farmer Governor thanked the Niger State Emergency Management Agency, Fire Service, Road Safety, Union of Road Transport (NURT) among other agencies that have contributed to the evacuation of victims.<\/div>\n
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He said Doctors from Minna Hospitals will be redeployed to assist in treating the injured victims currently receiving treatment in Suleja General Hospital<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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A total of one hundred victims of the Dikko Tanker explosion in Gurara Local Government area have been given mass burial in the Dikko area of Gurara Local Government. The tanker explosion which occurred\u00a0 on Saturday\u00a0 along Dikko, Minna High ways\u00a0 claimed a total of one hundred persons lives while several other sustained degrees of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1374,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[816,831,829,830,819,817,818],"class_list":["post-1373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oil-gas","tag-explosion","tag-grave","tag-kill","tag-mass","tag-petrol","tag-tanker","tag-victims"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1373"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1373\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1377,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1373\/revisions\/1377"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}