{"id":589,"date":"2007-06-18T10:00:59","date_gmt":"2007-06-18T10:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/archives\/2007\/06\/18\/more-demolitions-in-abuja\/"},"modified":"2007-06-18T10:00:59","modified_gmt":"2007-06-18T10:00:59","slug":"more-demolitions-in-abuja","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/archives\/2007\/06\/18\/more-demolitions-in-abuja\/","title":{"rendered":"More demolitions in Abuja"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last time I was in Abuja I used my phone to take some pictures of the aftermath of demolitions at Utako Ultra-Modern International Market.  It seems that the two-storey buildings that had surrounded the market (and held up the sign with the impressive name) were illegal, so down they had to come.<br \/>\n<a href=\"\/media\/Nigeria\/Abuja\/UtakoUltraModernInternationalMarket1_w.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/media\/Nigeria\/Abuja\/UtakoUltraModernInternationalMarket1_t.jpg\" alt=\"Concrete rubble in front of a market\" title=\"The devastation at Utako market\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"\/media\/Nigeria\/Abuja\/UtakoUltraModernInternationalMarket2_w.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/media\/Nigeria\/Abuja\/UtakoUltraModernInternationalMarket2_t.jpg\" alt=\"Remains of demolished buildings in a market\" title=\"Inside Utako market\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m sure they&#8217;ll be replaced with some more of the shiny &#8220;plazas&#8221; that blight Abuja.  That is shopping complexes that are mostly empty apart from clothes shops operated as a hobby by the wives and girlfriends of rich men and where only their friends shop.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last time I was in Abuja I used my phone to take some pictures of the aftermath of demolitions at Utako Ultra-Modern International Market. It seems that the two-storey buildings that had surrounded the market (and held up the sign with the impressive name) were illegal, so down they had to come. I&#8217;m sure they&#8217;ll [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vso"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589","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=589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caboose.org.uk\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}