{"id":174449,"date":"2024-06-13T19:43:21","date_gmt":"2024-06-13T17:43:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigerian-army-speaks-on-report-its-checkpoint-caused-fatal-road-crash-in-enugu\/"},"modified":"2024-06-13T19:43:21","modified_gmt":"2024-06-13T17:43:21","slug":"nigerian-army-speaks-on-report-its-checkpoint-caused-fatal-road-crash-in-enugu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigerian-army-speaks-on-report-its-checkpoint-caused-fatal-road-crash-in-enugu\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigerian Army Speaks On Report Its Checkpoint Caused Fatal Road Crash in Enugu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\">The accident, which involved seven vehicles, occurred at about 6:40 p.m. on Tuesday along Ninth Mile-Ugwu Onyeama Road in the state.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"19\">The Nigerian army has reacted to a report that its checkpoint caused a fatal road accident in Enugu State.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">PREMIUM TIMES <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.premiumtimesng.com\/news\/top-news\/703319-many-feared-killed-several-others-injured-in-enugu-road-multiple-crash.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a><\/strong> that many passengers were feared killed in the road crash, which occurred at about 6:40 p.m. on Tuesday along Ninth Mile-Ugwu Onyeama Road in the state.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"41\">The Sector Commander of the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/frsc.gov.ng\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Federal Road Safety Corps<\/a><\/strong> (FRSC) in Enugu State, Adeyemi&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202406130606.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Nigeria\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/nigeria\/\">Nigeria<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The accident, which involved seven vehicles, occurred at about 6:40 p.m. on Tuesday along Ninth Mile-Ugwu Onyeama Road in the state. The Nigerian army has reacted to a report that its checkpoint caused a fatal road accident in Enugu State. PREMIUM TIMES reported that many passengers were feared killed in the road crash, which occurred [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":174450,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[258,256,4361,8965,35573,7750,12385,13059,257,393,482,5144,7414,254,5938],"class_list":["post-174449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-army","tag-caused","tag-checkpoint","tag-crash","tag-enugu","tag-fatal","tag-news","tag-nigeria-news","tag-nigerian","tag-report","tag-road","tag-south-africa-today","tag-speaks"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174449\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/174450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}