{"id":44154,"date":"2026-04-24T17:38:27","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T15:38:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/?p=44154"},"modified":"2026-04-24T17:38:27","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T15:38:27","slug":"fuel-tankers-explode-at-unity-state-oil-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/24\/fuel-tankers-explode-at-unity-state-oil-station\/","title":{"rendered":"Fuel tankers explode at Unity State oil station"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>By Chol D. Johnson<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Two fuel tankers exploded on Thursday morning at Gudey Oil Station in Unity State, causing a fire whose origin remains unknown.<\/p>\n<p>Unity State Minister of Information, Nyakenya Johannes Keah, confirmed the incident in an exclusive interview with No. 1 Citizen Daily Newspaper.<\/p>\n<p>She stated that one of the tankers initially caught fire before the situation escalated.<\/p>\n<p>The minister expressed that the relevant authorities are investigating the cause of the fire.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes, there is a fuel tanker that caught fire in the morning in the Unity oil field. So, the cause of it is not yet identified,&#8221; the minister confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe cause has not yet been identified, and investigations are ongoing to determine what really happened,\u201d she reiterated.<\/p>\n<p>Keah added that authorities at the scene successfully extinguished the fire in the office and there were no casualties or injuries reported.<\/p>\n<p>According to the minister, the tankers belonged to a private investor, a businessman.<\/p>\n<p>The explosion occurred near facilities operated by the Greater Pioneer Operating Company (GPOC), where other fuel tankers are typically stationed.<\/p>\n<p>The situation is now calm, with state authorities continuing their investigation into the incident.<\/p>\n<p>Efforts to reach Greater Pioneer Operating Company (GPOC) officials for comment were not successful at the press time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Chol D. Johnson Two fuel tankers exploded on Thursday morning at Gudey Oil Station in Unity State, causing a fire whose origin remains unknown. Unity State Minister of Information, Nyakenya Johannes Keah, confirmed the incident in an exclusive interview with No. 1 Citizen Daily Newspaper. She stated that one<a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/24\/fuel-tankers-explode-at-unity-state-oil-station\/\">[Read More&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":44155,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/The-Fire-Briget-watering-the-fire-hit-on-two-fuel-tankers-at-Gudey-Oil-Station-in-Unity-State-Courtesy-Photo.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44154"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44156,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44154\/revisions\/44156"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}