{"id":169439,"date":"2025-07-14T19:54:35","date_gmt":"2025-07-14T18:54:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/kano-bomb-threat-forces-security-alert-at-phone-market"},"modified":"2025-07-14T20:58:29","modified_gmt":"2025-07-14T19:58:29","slug":"kano-bomb-threat-forces-security-alert-at-phone-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/kano-bomb-threat-forces-security-alert-at-phone-market","title":{"rendered":"Kano: Bomb threat forces security alert at phone market"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>Tension gripped the Bata Phone Market in Kano after unknown individuals sent bomb threat messages to the market chairman.<\/p>\n<p>The market chairman, Mahrazu Usman Lawan, confirmed the incident to Arewa Update.<\/p>\n<p>He said the threats started arriving on his phone on Sunday evening, with the senders demanding 10 million naira to \u201csave the market.\u201d They warned that if their demand was not met, they had planted bombs in seven shops.<\/p>\n<p>Following this, the market authorities informed security agencies, who continued discussions and strategies while the threats escalated to direct phone calls.<\/p>\n<p>He stated that security personnel came and thoroughly searched the market but found no explosives, leading to the market reopening until 5 PM on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>He further revealed that even by midday, they were still receiving threatening messages warning them to \u201cwait for Monday night.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>We will provide further updates as the story develops.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Nigeria<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. Tension gripped the Bata Phone Market in Kano after unknown individuals sent bomb threat messages to the market chairman. The market chairman, Mahrazu Usman Lawan, confirmed the incident to Arewa Update. He said the threats started arriving on his phone on Sunday evening, with the senders demanding 10 million naira to \u201csave [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":169438,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[4321,372,254,18007],"class_list":["post-169439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-bomb","tag-kano","tag-nigeria","tag-phone-market"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Kano: Bomb threat forces security alert at phone market - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Tension gripped the Bata Phone Market in Kano after unknown individuals sent bomb threat messages to the market chairman ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/kano-bomb-threat-forces-security-alert-at-phone-market\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Kano: Bomb threat forces security alert at phone market\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Tension gripped the Bata Phone Market in Kano after unknown individuals sent bomb threat messages to the market chairman ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/kano-bomb-threat-forces-security-alert-at-phone-market\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-07-14T18:54:35+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-07-14T19:58:29+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/07\/sm_1752510634.654999.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"900\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"781\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/kano-bomb-threat-forces-security-alert-at-phone-market#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/kano-bomb-threat-forces-security-alert-at-phone-market\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Kano: Bomb threat forces security alert at phone market\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-07-14T18:54:35+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-07-14T19:58:29+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/kano-bomb-threat-forces-security-alert-at-phone-market\"},\"wordCount\":164,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/kano-bomb-threat-forces-security-alert-at-phone-market#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/07\/sm_1752510634.654999.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"bomb\",\"Kano\",\"Nigeria\",\"Phone market\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/kano-bomb-threat-forces-security-alert-at-phone-market#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/kano-bomb-threat-forces-security-alert-at-phone-market\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/kano-bomb-threat-forces-security-alert-at-phone-market\",\"name\":\"Kano: Bomb threat forces security alert at phone market - 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