{"id":203109,"date":"2020-03-20T08:07:48","date_gmt":"2020-03-20T07:07:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=203109"},"modified":"2020-03-20T08:37:02","modified_gmt":"2020-03-20T07:37:02","slug":"coronavirus-death-is-close-by-seun-kuti-warns-africans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=203109","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus: Death is close by &#8211; Seun Kuti warns Africans"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">Seun Kuti, the son of Afrobeat legend, Fela Kuti has issued a warning to Nigerians and Africa in general over the outbreak of the Coronavirus.<br \/>\nDAILY POST on Thursday reported that four more cases were confirmed in Lagos, bringing the total number of patients in Nigeria to 12.<br \/>\nThis has pressured the government to shut down schools, churches, mosques and some airports in Nigeria.<br \/>\nSpeaking on the development, Kuti warned Africans to take good care of themselves as they could die from this crisis.<br \/>\nHe also took a swipe at European countries for its level of inefficiency to stop the spread of COVID-19.<br \/>\nAccording to him, the spread of Coronavirus from developed countries had proved to him that they were more invested in destruction of humans than preserving it.<br \/>\nOn his Instagram page, the afrobeat singer wrote: \u201dAll the hundreds of billions of dollars spent on DEFENCE, has actually been spent on destroying the other, not protecting humanity or the planet. It is obvious that the world is unprepared to defend itself from a real enemy!!<br \/>\n\u201cIt is clear that all you can do as DEFENCE is to blow up black and brown people and destroy the environment.<br \/>\n\u201cBy the way hunger is killing thousands everyday, where is the hysteria on that!<br \/>\n\u201cListen if you are African take care, but also you know death is close by, no be corona kill them for Amuwo Odofin o! \u201d<br \/>\n<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-772055 lazy\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg'%20viewBox='0%200%20750%201108'%3E%3C\/svg%3E\" data-src=\"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/storage\/2020\/03\/Coronavirus-Death-is-close-by-Seun-Kuti-warns-Africans.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"1108\" data-=\"data-\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seun Kuti, the son of Afrobeat legend, Fela Kuti has issued a warning to Nigerians and Africa in general over the outbreak of the Coronavirus. DAILY POST on Thursday reported that four more cases were confirmed in Lagos, bringing the total number of patients in Nigeria to 12. This has pressured the government to shut [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":203110,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2678,3],"tags":[2658,14052,8575],"class_list":["post-203109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","category-news","tag-a","tag-corona-virus","tag-seun-kuti"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=203109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203109\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/203110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=203109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=203109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=203109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}