{"id":350114,"date":"2021-05-10T10:10:51","date_gmt":"2021-05-10T09:10:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=350114"},"modified":"2021-05-10T10:11:08","modified_gmt":"2021-05-10T09:11:08","slug":"eid-al-fitr-buhari-cancels-sallah-homage-to-presidential-villa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=350114","title":{"rendered":"Eid-Al-Fitr: Buhari cancels Sallah homage to Presidential Villa"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">President Buhari has directed that all celebrations, including the forthcoming Eid-Al-Fitr, should be limited due to the global coronavirus pandemic.<br \/>\nAccording to Buhari\u2019s Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, the President, First Family, his personal aides, members of cabinet and Service Chiefs who choose to remain in Abuja, will congregate in full compliance with COVID-19 protocols at the forecourt of the Presidential Villa to observe the Eid prayers at 9 a.m.<br \/>\nShehu also announced that there would be no traditional Sallah homage to the President by religious, community and political leaders after the prayer.<br \/>\n\u201dAs was the case last year, the President encourages such leaders to be content with modest celebrations at home in view of the pandemic,\u201d he said.<br \/>\nBuhari also thanked the Ulama (Islamic Clerics) and all other religious (Muslim, Christian) leaders who had been praying for the wellbeing of the nation and its people.<br \/>\n\u201dThe President, in addition, takes this opportunity to condole with all who lost family members due to what he described as the \u2018madness\u2019 going on in parts of the country,\u201d the statement added.<br \/>\nBuhari also called on all local leaders to talk to their youths and warn them against being used to incite and foment violence.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Buhari has directed that all celebrations, including the forthcoming Eid-Al-Fitr, should be limited due to the global coronavirus pandemic. According to Buhari\u2019s Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, the President, First Family, his personal aides, members of cabinet and Service Chiefs who choose to remain in Abuja, will congregate in full compliance [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":350115,"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":[1],"tags":[41,633,8040],"class_list":["post-350114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-more","tag-buhari","tag-garba-shehu","tag-service-chiefs"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350114","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=350114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350114\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/350115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=350114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=350114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=350114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}