{"id":23162,"date":"2020-03-28T16:06:17","date_gmt":"2020-03-28T16:06:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/nigeria\/?p=23162"},"modified":"2020-03-28T16:06:17","modified_gmt":"2020-03-28T16:06:17","slug":"ondo-explosion-fani-kayode-reacts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/ondo-explosion-fani-kayode-reacts","title":{"rendered":"Ondo explosion: Fani-Kayode reacts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Africa Press-Nigeria:<\/p>\n<p>Femi Fani-Kayode, a former Minister of Aviation, has spoken on the massive explosions that rocked Ondo State on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>DAILY POST recalls that over 100 buildings were in the early hours of Saturday destroyed following an explosion that rocked Ondo State.<\/p>\n<p>The explosion occurred around 1 a.m. on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>A terrifying loud bang was heard when everyone was already asleep, according to residents of the area.<\/p>\n<p>Reacting to the development, Fani-Kayode claimed that the South-West is being targeted, adding that he hoped at the end of it all, there will still be someone left standing to defend the region.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFirst it was Ekiti, then Abule Ado in Lagos and now Akure,\u201d Fani-Kayode tweeted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf we like, we should keep kidding ourselves, saying that these are not bombs and that we are not being targeted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLet\u2019s hope that by the end of it all, there will still be someone left standing to defend the South-West,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Governor Oluwarotimi Akeredolu had while confirming the development said security chiefs had briefed him, and efforts were being made to ascertain if there are casualties.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa Press-Nigeria: Femi Fani-Kayode, a former Minister of Aviation, has spoken on the massive explosions that rocked Ondo State on Saturday. DAILY POST recalls that over 100 buildings were in the early hours of Saturday destroyed following an explosion that rocked Ondo State. The explosion occurred around 1 a.m. on Saturday. A terrifying loud bang [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":15644,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[85,206],"class_list":["post-23162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-femi-fani-kayode","tag-lagos"],"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>Ondo explosion: Fani-Kayode reacts - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Africa Press-Nigeria:Femi Fani-Kayode, a former Minister of Aviation, has spoken on the massive explosions that rocked Ondo State on Saturday.\" \/>\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\/all-news\/ondo-explosion-fani-kayode-reacts\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Ondo explosion: Fani-Kayode reacts\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Africa Press-Nigeria:Femi Fani-Kayode, a former Minister of Aviation, has spoken on the massive explosions that rocked Ondo State on Saturday.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/ondo-explosion-fani-kayode-reacts\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-03-28T16:06:17+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/2019\/09\/Dr-Kayode-Fayemi.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"675\" \/>\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\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/ondo-explosion-fani-kayode-reacts#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/ondo-explosion-fani-kayode-reacts\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"alico\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/50afd2ef4f0e900bd0a176404a8484a7\"},\"headline\":\"Ondo explosion: Fani-Kayode reacts\",\"datePublished\":\"2020-03-28T16:06:17+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/ondo-explosion-fani-kayode-reacts\"},\"wordCount\":189,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/ondo-explosion-fani-kayode-reacts#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/2019\/09\/Dr-Kayode-Fayemi.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Femi-Fani-Kayode\",\"Lagos\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/ondo-explosion-fani-kayode-reacts#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/ondo-explosion-fani-kayode-reacts\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/ondo-explosion-fani-kayode-reacts\",\"name\":\"Ondo explosion: Fani-Kayode reacts - 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