{"id":5100,"date":"2013-01-09T08:35:00","date_gmt":"2013-01-09T08:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/oil-tanker-explodes-at-lagos-port-in-nigeria\/"},"modified":"2013-01-09T08:34:38","modified_gmt":"2013-01-09T08:34:38","slug":"oil-tanker-explodes-at-lagos-port-in-nigeria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/oil-tanker-explodes-at-lagos-port-in-nigeria\/","title":{"rendered":"Oil Tanker Explodes at Lagos Port in Nigeria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{{An oil depot in the port area of the Nigerian city of Lagos has been hit by a major explosion and fire.}}<\/p>\n<p>The National Emergency Management Agency (Nema) said, the blast, which shook buildings in the Apapa area, happened during a transfer of fuel.<\/p>\n<p>Many tankers dock at jetties in the port in Lagos to load and unload petroleum products.<\/p>\n<p>Willem Auret an eyewitness at the scene was quoted by BBC saying the  blast occured on a ship on its way to Snake Island in Apapa, said he saw a tanker barge catch fire at about 11:00 local time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{{An oil depot in the port area of the Nigerian city of Lagos has been hit by a major explosion and fire.}} The National Emergency Management Agency (Nema) said, the blast, which shook buildings in the Apapa area, happened during a transfer of fuel. Many tankers dock at jetties in the port in Lagos to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[100],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-5100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-africa","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5100\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5100"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=5100"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=5100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}