{"id":213460,"date":"2020-04-25T22:41:47","date_gmt":"2020-04-25T21:41:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=213460"},"modified":"2020-04-25T22:42:20","modified_gmt":"2020-04-25T21:42:20","slug":"coronavirus-im-afraid-for-core-northern-states-dino-melaye","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=213460","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus: I\u2019m afraid for core northern states \u2013 Dino Melaye"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"entry-thumb\" width=\"696\" height=\"497\" src=\"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/storage\/2020\/04\/Coronavirus-I\u2019m-afraid-for-core-northern-states-\u2013-Dino-Melaye.jpg\" alt=\"Senator Dino Melaye (APC - Kogi West)\" title=\"Senator Dino Melaye (APC - Kogi West)\"><\/div>\n<p>Senator Dino Melaye, on Saturday, said that he is afraid for the core Northern States of Nigeria as Coronavirus (COVID-19) cases rise across the country.<\/p>\n<p>Dino Melaye also appealed to the Governors of the states in the Northern region of Nigeria to be more proactive.<\/p>\n<p>Dino made the appeal in a tweet on his official Twitter page.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m afraid for the core Northern States. I appeal to the Governors to be more proactive and enforce all conditions stated by WHO and NCDC.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCOVID-19 is real, and it is a world leveler. It has no respect for status, religion or wealth. Please let\u2019s not politicize with public health,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) announced that another 114 new cases of COVID-19 were confirmed in the last 24 hours, bringing to 1095 the number of confirmed cases in the country as of Friday night.<\/p>\n<div style=\"float:none; margin:0px;\">\n<div style=\"color:#3E3E3E\"><i>Get more stories like this on <\/i><i><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/todayng\" style=\"color: #ED1C24\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Twitter<\/a><\/i><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senator Dino Melaye, on Saturday, said that he is afraid for the core Northern States of Nigeria as Coronavirus (COVID-19) cases rise across the country. Dino Melaye also appealed to the Governors of the states in the Northern region of Nigeria to be more proactive. Dino made the appeal in a tweet on his official [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":213461,"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":[14173,495,3446],"class_list":["post-213460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health","category-news","tag-coronavirus","tag-dino-melaye","tag-ganduje"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213460","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=213460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213460\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/213461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=213460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=213460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=213460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}