{"id":22677,"date":"2020-03-17T14:29:49","date_gmt":"2020-03-17T14:29:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/nigeria\/?p=22677"},"modified":"2020-03-17T14:29:49","modified_gmt":"2020-03-17T14:29:49","slug":"nigerian-government-postpones-national-sports-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/nigerian-government-postpones-national-sports-festival","title":{"rendered":"Nigerian government postpones National sports festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nigerian Government has announced the postponement of the National Sports Festival, Edo 2020.<\/p>\n<p>The Minister of Sports, Sunday Dare disclosed this in a series of posts on Tuesday on his Twitter page.<\/p>\n<p>He said the festival was postponed following confirmation of the third case of Coronavirus in Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p>Recall that the Minister of Health, Dr. Osagie Ehanire had assured that organisers will screen spectators and participants at the festival except the coronavirus situation change.<\/p>\n<p>It appears now that government has rescinded its initial plan of screening everyone at the festival following a new directive by the president to shelve the event.<\/p>\n<p>The post from the minister of sports read: \u201cFollowing the briefing of Mr. President from myself and the Minister of State for Health on COVID 19, Mr. President approved the immediate postponement of Edo Sports festival to a future date<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPresident Mohammadu Buhari approved the postponement of the National Sports Festival Edo 2020 as a precautionary move against COVID-19 spread.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nigerian Government has announced the postponement of the National Sports Festival, Edo 2020. The Minister of Sports, Sunday Dare disclosed this in a series of posts on Tuesday on his Twitter page. He said the festival was postponed following confirmation of the third case of Coronavirus in Nigeria. Recall that the Minister of Health, Dr. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":22679,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,1438,29],"tags":[1386,115],"class_list":["post-22677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-coronavirus-in-nigeria","category-head-lines","tag-coronavirus","tag-nigerian-sports"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Nigerian government postpones National sports festival - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Nigerian Government has announced the postponement of the National Sports Festival, Edo 2020.The Minister of Sports, Sunday Dare disclosed\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/nigerian-government-postpones-national-sports-festival\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Nigerian government postpones National sports festival\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Nigerian Government has announced the postponement of the National Sports Festival, Edo 2020.The Minister of Sports, Sunday Dare disclosed\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/nigerian-government-postpones-national-sports-festival\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-03-17T14:29:49+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2020\/03\/4C7BB31A-BE2A-4CA2-AB33-182FE3037BE8-696x392-1.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"696\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"392\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"alico\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"alico\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/nigerian-government-postpones-national-sports-festival#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/nigerian-government-postpones-national-sports-festival\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"alico\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/50afd2ef4f0e900bd0a176404a8484a7\"},\"headline\":\"Nigerian government postpones National sports festival\",\"datePublished\":\"2020-03-17T14:29:49+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/nigerian-government-postpones-national-sports-festival\"},\"wordCount\":164,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/nigerian-government-postpones-national-sports-festival#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2020\/03\/4C7BB31A-BE2A-4CA2-AB33-182FE3037BE8-696x392-1.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"coronavirus\",\"Nigerian sports\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Coronavirus in Nigeria\",\"head lines\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/nigerian-government-postpones-national-sports-festival#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/nigerian-government-postpones-national-sports-festival\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/nigerian-government-postpones-national-sports-festival\",\"name\":\"Nigerian government postpones National sports festival - 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