{"id":23043,"date":"2020-03-25T18:25:13","date_gmt":"2020-03-25T18:25:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/nigeria\/?p=23043"},"modified":"2020-03-25T18:25:13","modified_gmt":"2020-03-25T18:25:13","slug":"covid-19-kwara-bans-commercial-transportation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/covid-19-kwara-bans-commercial-transportation","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19: Kwara bans commercial transportation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kwara state government on Wednesday banned commercial vehicles, Okada and motor bike operators in the state.<\/p>\n<p>The state also announced the closure all mosques, churches and markets effective today (Thursday).<\/p>\n<p>It also announced the ban on all social functions and engagements.<\/p>\n<p>State Deputy Governor, who is the Chair Technical Committee on Covid-19, Mr. Kayode Alabi told reporters in Ilorin, state capital.<\/p>\n<p>He said that the development is aimed at protecting the lives of the residents of the state.<\/p>\n<p>Alabi said that government would put security arrangement on ground so as to ensure the compliance of the order in the state.<\/p>\n<p>He added that \u201cthe lockdown of the state would curb any invassion of unsuspected members of the public that may likely invading the state through commercial operators from the neighbouring states of the federation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The governor said that \u201cfast food operators in the state should do take-away of their foods and avoid any customers to sit down to eat in their business premises henceforth\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kwara state government on Wednesday banned commercial vehicles, Okada and motor bike operators in the state. The state also announced the closure all mosques, churches and markets effective today (Thursday). It also announced the ban on all social functions and engagements. State Deputy Governor, who is the Chair Technical Committee on Covid-19, Mr. Kayode Alabi [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":23046,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,30,1438],"tags":[1453,74],"class_list":["post-23043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-community","category-coronavirus-in-nigeria","tag-coronavirus-in-nigeria","tag-kwara-state"],"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>COVID-19: Kwara bans commercial transportation - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Kwara state government on Wednesday banned commercial vehicles, Okada and motor bike operators in the state.The state also announced\" \/>\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\/covid-19-kwara-bans-commercial-transportation\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"COVID-19: Kwara bans commercial transportation\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Kwara state government on Wednesday banned commercial vehicles, Okada and motor bike operators in the state.The state also announced\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/covid-19-kwara-bans-commercial-transportation\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-03-25T18:25:13+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2020\/03\/COVID-19-1-750x375-1.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"750\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"375\" \/>\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\/covid-19-kwara-bans-commercial-transportation#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/covid-19-kwara-bans-commercial-transportation\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"alico\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/50afd2ef4f0e900bd0a176404a8484a7\"},\"headline\":\"COVID-19: Kwara bans commercial transportation\",\"datePublished\":\"2020-03-25T18:25:13+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/covid-19-kwara-bans-commercial-transportation\"},\"wordCount\":169,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/covid-19-kwara-bans-commercial-transportation#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2020\/03\/COVID-19-1-750x375-1.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Coronavirus in Nigeria\",\"kwara state\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Community\",\"Coronavirus in Nigeria\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/covid-19-kwara-bans-commercial-transportation#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/covid-19-kwara-bans-commercial-transportation\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/covid-19-kwara-bans-commercial-transportation\",\"name\":\"COVID-19: Kwara bans commercial transportation - 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