{"id":264287,"date":"2020-09-30T08:00:12","date_gmt":"2020-09-30T07:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=264287"},"modified":"2020-09-30T08:00:39","modified_gmt":"2020-09-30T07:00:39","slug":"nigeria-at-60-fg-lists-roads-to-be-closed-tightens-security-at-eagle-square","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=264287","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria at 60: FG lists roads to be closed, tightens security at Eagle Square"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">The federal government has announced increased security measures for Nigeria\u2019s 60th Independence Anniversary celebration.<\/p>\n<p>Ahead of the October 1 event, security has been enhanced in and around the venue \u2013 Eagle Square in Abuja.<\/p>\n<p>Minister of Information, Lai Mohammed, made the announcement in a statement Tuesday night.<\/p>\n<p>He noted that from midnight on Wednesday, all routes leading to the Eagle Square will be blocked.<\/p>\n<p>The Shehu Shagari Way, Ahmadu Bello Way, outward and inward-bound Airport and adjoining roads will also be shut to<br \/>\ntraffic.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, the Federal Secretariat will be evacuated by 2.00 pm on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis means all workers within the precinct of the Eagle Square are expected to vacate their offices from that time\u201d, Mohammed said.<\/p>\n<p>The government had declared Thursday a public holiday in commemoration of the Diamond Jubilee.<\/p>\n<p>(DailyPost)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The federal government has announced increased security measures for Nigeria\u2019s 60th Independence Anniversary celebration. Ahead of the October 1 event, security has been enhanced in and around the venue \u2013 Eagle Square in Abuja. Minister of Information, Lai Mohammed, made the announcement in a statement Tuesday night. He noted that from midnight on Wednesday, all [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":264288,"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":[3],"tags":[3751,15720],"class_list":["post-264287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-eagle-square","tag-nigeria60"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264287","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=264287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264287\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/264288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=264287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=264287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=264287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}