{"id":140259,"date":"2015-08-03T16:06:11","date_gmt":"2015-08-03T16:06:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=140259"},"modified":"2015-08-03T16:06:11","modified_gmt":"2015-08-03T16:06:11","slug":"nigerian-city-kano-floods-after-heavy-rain-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=140259","title":{"rendered":"Nigerian city Kano floods after heavy rain [Photos]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The streets of Nigeria&#8217;s biggest city Kano have been flooded after hours of heavy rain.<\/p>\n<p>The BBC reports that\u00a0the city&#8217;s famous Kurmi market was flooded along with \u00a0several bus and taxi parks.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_140266\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-140266\" style=\"width: 728px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-140266 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Nigeria-floods.jpg\" alt=\"Nigeria floods\" width=\"728\" height=\"410\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Nigeria-floods.jpg 728w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Nigeria-floods-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 728px) 100vw, 728px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-140266\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: BBC<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The rain which cased the floods is believed to have lasted for over seven hours.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_140267\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-140267\" style=\"width: 728px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-140267 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Nigeria-floods1.jpg\" alt=\"Nigeria floods1\" width=\"728\" height=\"410\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Nigeria-floods1.jpg 728w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Nigeria-floods1-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 728px) 100vw, 728px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-140267\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: BBC<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In 2013, over 500 people were displaced after heavy rain flooded their homes in Kano<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_140268\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-140268\" style=\"width: 728px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-140268 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Nigeria-floods2.jpg\" alt=\"Nigeria floods2\" width=\"728\" height=\"410\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Nigeria-floods2.jpg 728w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Nigeria-floods2-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 728px) 100vw, 728px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-140268\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: BBC<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>By: Edwin Kwakofi\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The streets of Nigeria&#8217;s biggest city Kano have been flooded after hours of heavy rain. The BBC reports that\u00a0the city&#8217;s famous Kurmi market was flooded along with \u00a0several bus and taxi parks. &nbsp; The rain which cased the floods is believed to have lasted for over seven hours. In 2013, over 500 people were displaced [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":140268,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[14],"class_list":["post-140259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-papa-owusu-ankomah"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=140259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140259\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/140268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=140259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=140259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=140259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}