{"id":212887,"date":"2020-04-23T18:57:17","date_gmt":"2020-04-23T17:57:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=212887"},"modified":"2020-04-23T19:02:12","modified_gmt":"2020-04-23T18:02:12","slug":"osinbajo-meets-eight-governors-boss-mustapha-over-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=212887","title":{"rendered":"Osinbajo meets eight governors, Boss Mustapha over COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has reportedly held a virtual conference with eight governors on how to tackle the COVID-19 pandemic in Nigeria.<br \/>\nThe meeting was centred on harmonising coronavirus response efforts by the federal and state governments.<br \/>\nOsinbajo\u2019s spokesperson, Laolu Akande, disclosed this via a tweet on Thursday in Abuja.<br \/>\nHe said the video-conference was held on Wednesday, NAN reports.<br \/>\n\u201cLate last night, Osinbajo held a video-conference with eight governors from the geopolitical zones on how to coordinate the plans of the states with those of the Federal Government on the management of the COVID-19 Pandemic.<br \/>\n\u201cSecretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Finance and Health Minister also participated in the meeting,\u2019\u2019 he said.<br \/>\nThe vice president heads the Economic Sustainability Committee (ESC) set up by President Muhammadu Buhari to address the economic fallout of the COVID-19 pandemic.<br \/>\nThis is coming at a time when the Nigerian Governors Forum, NGF called for an interstate lockdown in a bid to tackle the spread of the disease.<br \/>\nThe forum\u2019s position was contained in a communiqu\u00e9 signed by its Chairman and Governor of Ekiti State, Kayode Fayemi.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has reportedly held a virtual conference with eight governors on how to tackle the COVID-19 pandemic in Nigeria. The meeting was centred on harmonising coronavirus response efforts by the federal and state governments. Osinbajo\u2019s spokesperson, Laolu Akande, disclosed this via a tweet on Thursday in Abuja. He said the video-conference was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":212888,"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":[14571,3],"tags":[2658,14575,5732],"class_list":["post-212887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health","category-news","tag-a","tag-covid-19","tag-osinbajo"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212887","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=212887"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212887\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/212888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=212887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=212887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=212887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}