{"id":12564,"date":"2024-01-18T06:01:29","date_gmt":"2024-01-18T06:01:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/minister-orders-probe-of-ibadan-explosion\/"},"modified":"2024-01-18T06:01:29","modified_gmt":"2024-01-18T06:01:29","slug":"minister-orders-probe-of-ibadan-explosion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/minister-orders-probe-of-ibadan-explosion\/","title":{"rendered":"Minister orders probe of Ibadan explosion"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The Minister of Solid Minerals and Development, Dr Dele Alake has ordered Mine Officers of the ministry to investigate the Tuesday night explosion in Ibadan, Oyo State.<\/p>\n<p>Alake gave the directive on Wednesday in Abuja.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have directed the ministry\u2019s mine officers who are already on site in Ibadan to join ongoing investigations to find out the immediate and remote causes of the explosion.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have ordered a detailed investigation and our officers will work and collaborate with the Oyo State government to know the actual cause,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The minister\u2019s order was as a result of reports that the explosion was allegedly traceable to the denotation of explosive devices stored by illegal miners.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the state governor, Seyi Makinde announced that no fewer than two people were reported dead and 77 people injured in the blast.<\/p>\n<p>Also 58 buildings were reported damaged by the explosion.<\/p>\n<p>The minister commiserated with Makinde and the people of Oyo over the incident.<\/p>\n<p>Minister orders probe of Ibadan explosion<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Minister of Solid Minerals and Development, Dr Dele Alake has ordered Mine Officers of the ministry to investigate the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12565,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9133,1856,15],"tags":[7815,1954,1858,180],"class_list":["post-12564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dele-alake","category-ibadan","category-news","tag-alake","tag-dele","tag-ibadan","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12564\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}