{"id":19768,"date":"2020-01-05T16:02:20","date_gmt":"2020-01-05T16:02:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/nigeria\/?p=19768"},"modified":"2020-01-05T16:02:20","modified_gmt":"2020-01-05T16:02:20","slug":"gov-el-rufai-consoles-family-of-prof-mallam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/gov-el-rufai-consoles-family-of-prof-mallam","title":{"rendered":"Gov El-rufai consoles family of Prof Mallam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kaduna State Governor, Malam Nasir El-rufai has consoled the family of Prof Simon Mallam and others feared dead in the Sabon Tasha gas explosion on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Recall that not fewer than five people including a Professor were killed in the gas explosion which occurred in a business premises located along Kachia Road, Sabon Tasha, in Chikun Local Government Area of Kaduna State.<\/p>\n<p>The Professor Simon Mallam, who was the Chairman of Nigeria Atomic Energy Commission, NAEC, was killed in the explosion which destroyed the windows of residential homes in the area.<\/p>\n<p>Sources say the Professor had taken his grandson to a barber\u2019s shop close to where a retail gas outlet is located when the incident happened.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Governor Nasir el-Rufai of Kaduna state has consoled families of those that lost their lives to the unfortunate incident.<\/p>\n<p>El-Rufai, in a statement signed by the Kaduna state Commissioner for Internal Security and Home Affairs, Samuel Aruwan, urged the families to take heart, while sympathising with those that sustained injuries in the explosion as well.<\/p>\n<p>According to Aruwan, \u201cThe Kaduna state government has condoled the families that lost their loved ones following a gas explosion today. Our thoughts are with them in this sad moment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe incident occurred in a business premises located along Kachia Road, Sabon Tasha, in Chikun local government area.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe State government also sympathized with the citizens that sustained injuries in the explosion.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe State government commends the emergency services, including fire fighters of both Kaduna state and the Federal Fire Service and the Red Cross.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe government has also expressed its gratitude to the security agencies that participated in the search and rescue exercise.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kaduna State Governor, Malam Nasir El-rufai has consoled the family of Prof Simon Mallam and others feared dead in the Sabon Tasha gas explosion on Saturday. Recall that not fewer than five people including a Professor were killed in the gas explosion which occurred in a business premises located along Kachia Road, Sabon Tasha, in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":9688,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[326,205,96],"class_list":["post-19768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-el-rufai","tag-governer","tag-kaduna"],"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>Gov El-rufai consoles family of Prof Mallam - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Kaduna State Governor, Malam Nasir El-rufai has consoled the family of Prof Simon Mallam and others feared dead in the Sabon Tasha gas explosion\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"http:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/gov-el-rufai-consoles-family-of-prof-mallam\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Gov El-rufai consoles family of Prof Mallam\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Kaduna State Governor, Malam Nasir El-rufai has consoled the family of Prof Simon Mallam and others feared dead in the Sabon Tasha gas explosion\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"http:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/gov-el-rufai-consoles-family-of-prof-mallam\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-01-05T16:02:20+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/2019\/05\/Nasir-El-Rufai.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"800\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"600\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"alico\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"alico\" \/>\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\":\"http:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/gov-el-rufai-consoles-family-of-prof-mallam#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"http:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/gov-el-rufai-consoles-family-of-prof-mallam\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"alico\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/50afd2ef4f0e900bd0a176404a8484a7\"},\"headline\":\"Gov El-rufai consoles family of Prof Mallam\",\"datePublished\":\"2020-01-05T16:02:20+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"http:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/gov-el-rufai-consoles-family-of-prof-mallam\"},\"wordCount\":284,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"http:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/gov-el-rufai-consoles-family-of-prof-mallam#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/2019\/05\/Nasir-El-Rufai.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"El-Rufai\",\"Governer\",\"Kaduna\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"http:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/gov-el-rufai-consoles-family-of-prof-mallam#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"http:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/gov-el-rufai-consoles-family-of-prof-mallam\",\"url\":\"http:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/gov-el-rufai-consoles-family-of-prof-mallam\",\"name\":\"Gov El-rufai consoles family of Prof Mallam - 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