{"id":181700,"date":"2024-10-02T12:09:30","date_gmt":"2024-10-02T10:09:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-boat-accident-niger-emergency-agency-intensifies-search-rescue-operation\/"},"modified":"2024-10-02T12:09:30","modified_gmt":"2024-10-02T10:09:30","slug":"nigeria-boat-accident-niger-emergency-agency-intensifies-search-rescue-operation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-boat-accident-niger-emergency-agency-intensifies-search-rescue-operation\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: Boat Accident &#8211; Niger Emergency Agency Intensifies Search, Rescue Operation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">The Niger State Emergency Management Agency (NSEMA) is intensifying a search and rescue operation following a boat mishap in Gabjibo community of Mokwa Local Government Area of the state.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"17\">Alhaji Abdullahi Baba-Arah, the Director-General of NSEMA, made this known in a statement in Minna on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"18\">&#8220;The boat mishap occurred last night Oct. 1, around 8:30 pm on the River Niger upstream Jebba dam.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\">&#8220;The boat was carrying approximately 300 passengers, mostly women and children, was travelling from&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202410020114.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 Niger State Emergency Management Agency (NSEMA) is intensifying a search and rescue operation following a boat mishap in Gabjibo community of Mokwa Local Government Area of the state. Alhaji Abdullahi Baba-Arah, the Director-General of NSEMA, made this known in a statement in Minna on Wednesday. &#8220;The boat mishap occurred last night Oct. 1, around [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":181701,"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":[7264,258,256,5981,7202,6990,8013,257,404,4687,393,8556,10904,9020,254],"class_list":["post-181700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-accident","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-agency","tag-boat","tag-emergency","tag-intensifies","tag-news","tag-niger","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-operation","tag-rescue","tag-search","tag-south-africa-today"],"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\/181700","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=181700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181700\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/181701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}