{"id":43198,"date":"2021-05-17T15:25:22","date_gmt":"2021-05-17T15:25:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/?p=43198"},"modified":"2021-05-17T14:19:39","modified_gmt":"2021-05-17T14:19:39","slug":"our-intervention-saved-inec-headquarters-in-enugu-fire-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/our-intervention-saved-inec-headquarters-in-enugu-fire-service","title":{"rendered":"Our intervention saved INEC headquarters in Enugu \u2013 Fire Service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\">Nigeria<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>The Chief Fire Officer of Enugu State, Mr Okwudili Ohaa, says the timely intervention of the Fire Service saved the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) headquarters from burning down completely.<\/p>\n<p>Ohaa speaking to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Enugu on Monday, said about five INEC operational vehicles were burnt completely and one was partially burnt.<\/p>\n<p>He said that firefighters from the state\u2019s fire service at about 10:30pm were able to put off the fire, which broke out at 9:30pm.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur timely intervention saved INEC headquarters Enugu from burning completely.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe were able to quench the fire immediately as it tried to spread to the main building of the INEC Headquarters.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt only gutted two seats, probably visitors seats at the corridors upstairs,\u2019\u2019 he said.<\/p>\n<p>This foiled attack is coming few days after the INEC office in Obollo-Afor, Udenu was razed by fire.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the Enugu State Police Command has confirmed that unidentified hoodlums were behind the foiled attempt to set the Enugu INEC Headquarters ablaze.<\/p>\n<p>ASP Daniel Ndukwe said a full investigation had been launched to determine the cause of the attack.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. The Chief Fire Officer of Enugu State, Mr Okwudili Ohaa, says the timely intervention of the Fire Service saved the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) headquarters from burning down completely. Ohaa speaking to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Enugu on Monday, said about five INEC operational vehicles were burnt completely [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":43197,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,28,14,26],"tags":[1570,2140,662,4231,251,254],"class_list":["post-43198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-homepage-english","category-policy","category-twitter","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-nigeria-2","tag-enugu","tag-fire-service","tag-inec","tag-nigeria"],"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>Our intervention saved INEC headquarters in Enugu \u2013 Fire Service - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Chief Fire Officer of Enugu State, Mr Okwudili Ohaa, says the timely intervention of the Fire Service saved the Inde ...\" \/>\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\/our-intervention-saved-inec-headquarters-in-enugu-fire-service\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Our intervention saved INEC headquarters in Enugu \u2013 Fire Service\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Chief Fire Officer of Enugu State, Mr Okwudili Ohaa, says the timely intervention of the Fire Service saved the Inde ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/our-intervention-saved-inec-headquarters-in-enugu-fire-service\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2021-05-17T15:25:22+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2021\/05\/img-60a27b56ee2a6.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1280\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"720\" \/>\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\/our-intervention-saved-inec-headquarters-in-enugu-fire-service#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/our-intervention-saved-inec-headquarters-in-enugu-fire-service\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Our intervention saved INEC headquarters in Enugu \u2013 Fire Service\",\"datePublished\":\"2021-05-17T15:25:22+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/our-intervention-saved-inec-headquarters-in-enugu-fire-service\"},\"wordCount\":197,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/our-intervention-saved-inec-headquarters-in-enugu-fire-service#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2021\/05\/img-60a27b56ee2a6.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Nigeria\",\"Enugu\",\"Fire Service\",\"INEC\",\"Nigeria\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"homepage-english\",\"Policy\",\"twitter\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/our-intervention-saved-inec-headquarters-in-enugu-fire-service#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/our-intervention-saved-inec-headquarters-in-enugu-fire-service\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/our-intervention-saved-inec-headquarters-in-enugu-fire-service\",\"name\":\"Our intervention saved INEC headquarters in Enugu \u2013 Fire Service - 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