{"id":203308,"date":"2020-03-20T21:33:01","date_gmt":"2020-03-20T20:33:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=203308"},"modified":"2020-03-20T21:33:50","modified_gmt":"2020-03-20T20:33:50","slug":"coronavirus-nuc-orders-tertiary-institutions-to-close","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=203308","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus: NUC orders tertiary institutions to close"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><span class=\"ds-1col file file-image file-image-jpeg view-mode-embedded centered clearfix block-story-object block-story-object-resource block-story-object-resource-image\"><br \/>\n<span class=\"block-story-object-asset\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"media-element file-embedded\" typeof=\"foaf:Image\" src=\"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/storage\/2020\/03\/Nigerian-Universities-Commission-Orders-Tertiary-Institutions-To-Shut-Down-Over-Coronavirus.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/span><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"container container-pod container-pod-short\"><span class=\"adunit-parent hide block-module block-module-ad block-module-ad-300x250\"><span class=\"block-module-image-wrapper\"><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The National Universities Commission has ordered universities across the country to close for a month beginning from March 23, 2020.<\/p>\n<p>The directive was made know in a statement by the commission&#8217;s Deputy Executive Secretary, Suleiman Rammon-Yusuf.<\/p>\n<p>It reads, \u201cI write on behalf of the Executive Secretary to inform Vice Chancellors of Nigerian universities that as part of measures to contain and prevent the spread of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) throughout the country, approval has been granted for the closure of all schools for a period of one month commencing from Monday, 23rd March, 2020.<\/p>\n<p>\u201dVice Chancellors are kindly requested to ensure immediate compliance.&#8221;<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Universities Commission has ordered universities across the country to close for a month beginning from March 23, 2020. The directive was made know in a statement by the commission&#8217;s Deputy Executive Secretary, Suleiman Rammon-Yusuf. It reads, \u201cI write on behalf of the Executive Secretary to inform Vice Chancellors of Nigerian universities that as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"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":[2828,3],"tags":[14173,10113],"class_list":["post-203308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-news","tag-coronavirus","tag-nuc"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203308","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=203308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203308\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=203308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=203308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=203308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}