{"id":224633,"date":"2026-02-22T00:32:52","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T22:32:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-another-fire-outbreak-in-kano-market\/"},"modified":"2026-02-22T00:32:52","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T22:32:52","slug":"nigeria-another-fire-outbreak-in-kano-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-another-fire-outbreak-in-kano-market\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: Another Fire Outbreak in Kano Market"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\"><em>The Chairperson of the market&#8217;s fire committee, Dauda Chula, confirmed the incident to journalists, stating that the inferno began at around 5:40 a.m. on Friday.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">An early-morning fire disaster has destroyed at least 50 shops at the Fatima Simra Multi-Purpose Market in the Dakata area of the Kano metropolis.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">The Chairperson of the market&#8217;s fire committee, Dauda Chula, confirmed the incident to journalists, stating that the inferno began at around 5:40 a.m. on Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n  <span style=\"font-size: 110%;\"><br \/>\nKeep up with the latest&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202602200482.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 Chairperson of the market&#8217;s fire committee, Dauda Chula, confirmed the incident to journalists, stating that the inferno began at around 5:40 a.m. on Friday. An early-morning fire disaster has destroyed at least 50 shops at the Fatima Simra Multi-Purpose Market in the Dakata area of the Kano metropolis. The Chairperson of the market&#8217;s fire [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":224634,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[258,256,6600,694,4356,257,4687,393,6582,254],"class_list":["post-224633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-fire","tag-kano","tag-market","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-outbreak","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.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\/224633","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=224633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224633\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/224634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}