{"id":1159694,"date":"2022-07-26T16:00:14","date_gmt":"2022-07-26T16:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/07\/26\/pandemonium-as-heavy-explosion-rocks-lokoja\/"},"modified":"2022-07-26T16:00:14","modified_gmt":"2022-07-26T16:00:14","slug":"pandemonium-as-heavy-explosion-rocks-lokoja","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/07\/26\/pandemonium-as-heavy-explosion-rocks-lokoja\/","title":{"rendered":"Pandemonium As Heavy Explosion Rocks Lokoja"},"content":{"rendered":"

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An explosion on Tuesday rocked Lokoja the Kogi State capital causing palpable fears and panic among the people.<\/p>\n

It was gathered that the loud explosion occurred around 8:30 am and was heard on the premises of the State Ministry of Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs.<\/p>\n

The premises also housed the office of the Secretary to the Kogi State Government, State Ministry of Women Affairs, and Kogi Printing Press.<\/p>\n

Though there was no injury or loss of life, the loud explosion scared workers who were already in their offices preparing for the day\u2019s job.<\/p>\n

When contacted on phone, the Commissioner of Police in the state, Edward Egbuka, confirmed the explosion.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe were informed of a package that looked like a bomb left on the premises by an unknown person and I immediately deployed the bomb disposal unit there to assess the object,\u201d the CP stated.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe object was immediately blown up; the explosion you heard was the handwork of our bomb disposing unit brought about by their efforts to blow up the object.\u201d<\/p>\n

The police commissioner said that investigation has also commenced ascertaining what the object was and who left it there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

An explosion on Tuesday rocked Lokoja the Kogi State capital causing palpable fears and panic among the people. It was gathered that the loud explosion occurred around 8:30 am and was heard on the premises of the State Ministry of Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs. The premises also housed the office of the Secretary to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1063473,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3888],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1159694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1159694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1159694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1159694\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1159694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1159694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1159694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}