{"id":454,"date":"2005-10-31T14:50:35","date_gmt":"2005-10-31T14:50:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/archives\/2005\/10\/31\/something-is-going-to-happen-in-abuja\/"},"modified":"2005-10-31T14:50:35","modified_gmt":"2005-10-31T14:50:35","slug":"something-is-going-to-happen-in-abuja","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/archives\/2005\/10\/31\/something-is-going-to-happen-in-abuja\/","title":{"rendered":"Something is going to happen in Abuja"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Abuja is a famously dull city and most of the time it seems to be government policy to keep it that way.  The minister for the Federal Capital Territory, <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/world\/africa\/3634616.stm\">Mallam Nasir El-Rufai<\/a>, has been responsible for demolishing most of the (admittedly illegally-built) buildings that formerly provided useful services to the inhabitants of the city.<\/p>\n<p>Next month the government have organised something more constructive, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thecarnival.tv\/Abuja%20Carnival.htm\">Abuja Carnival<\/a>, organised by the team responsible for the Notting Hill Carnival in London.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abuja is a famously dull city and most of the time it seems to be government policy to keep it that way. The minister for the Federal Capital Territory, Mallam Nasir El-Rufai, has been responsible for demolishing most of the (admittedly illegally-built) buildings that formerly provided useful services to the inhabitants of the city. Next [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vso"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}