{"id":23808,"date":"2020-04-12T14:24:42","date_gmt":"2020-04-12T14:24:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/nigeria\/?p=23808"},"modified":"2020-04-12T14:24:42","modified_gmt":"2020-04-12T14:24:42","slug":"we-will-bid-farewell-to-covid-19-atiku-tells-nigerians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/we-will-bid-farewell-to-covid-19-atiku-tells-nigerians","title":{"rendered":"We will bid farewell to COVID-19 \u2013 Atiku tells Nigerians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Africa Press-Nigeria :<\/p>\n<p>Former Vice-President, Atiku Abubakar, has expressed confidence that Nigeria will soon bid farewell to Coronavirus (COVID-19).<\/p>\n<p>Atiku made this remark while wishing Nigerians and Christians all over the world a happy Easter.<\/p>\n<p>In a tweet on his official Twitter page on Sunday, Atiku said: \u201cI wish all Nigerians, and Christians around the world, a happy Easter.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have strong faith in God that Nigeria will rise and defeat this scourge, and together we will bid farewell to COVID-19<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHowever, we must not aim to return to normal. We must profit from our experiences, and return to better than normal.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe must return to increased patriotism, increased productivity, increased victory against our common challenges, and increased Unity and Faith, Peace and Progress.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the number of COVID-19 cases in Nigeria is now 318, according to NCDC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa Press-Nigeria : Former Vice-President, Atiku Abubakar, has expressed confidence that Nigeria will soon bid farewell to Coronavirus (COVID-19). Atiku made this remark while wishing Nigerians and Christians all over the world a happy Easter. In a tweet on his official Twitter page on Sunday, Atiku said: \u201cI wish all Nigerians, and Christians around the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":14396,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,16],"tags":[316,1453],"class_list":["post-23808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-parties","tag-atiku","tag-coronavirus-in-nigeria"],"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>We will bid farewell to COVID-19 \u2013 Atiku tells Nigerians - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Africa Press-Nigeria :Former Vice-President, Atiku Abubakar, has expressed confidence that Nigeria will soon bid farewell to Coronavirus\" \/>\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\/we-will-bid-farewell-to-covid-19-atiku-tells-nigerians\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"We will bid farewell to COVID-19 \u2013 Atiku tells Nigerians\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Africa Press-Nigeria :Former Vice-President, Atiku Abubakar, has expressed confidence that Nigeria will soon bid farewell to Coronavirus\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/we-will-bid-farewell-to-covid-19-atiku-tells-nigerians\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-04-12T14:24:42+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/2019\/08\/Atiku-Abubakar-Photo-Credit-Channels-NewsAsia-1280x720.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1280\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"720\" \/>\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\/we-will-bid-farewell-to-covid-19-atiku-tells-nigerians#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/we-will-bid-farewell-to-covid-19-atiku-tells-nigerians\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"alico\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/50afd2ef4f0e900bd0a176404a8484a7\"},\"headline\":\"We will bid farewell to COVID-19 \u2013 Atiku tells Nigerians\",\"datePublished\":\"2020-04-12T14:24:42+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/we-will-bid-farewell-to-covid-19-atiku-tells-nigerians\"},\"wordCount\":145,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/we-will-bid-farewell-to-covid-19-atiku-tells-nigerians#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/2019\/08\/Atiku-Abubakar-Photo-Credit-Channels-NewsAsia-1280x720.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Atiku\",\"Coronavirus in Nigeria\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Parties\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/we-will-bid-farewell-to-covid-19-atiku-tells-nigerians#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/we-will-bid-farewell-to-covid-19-atiku-tells-nigerians\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/we-will-bid-farewell-to-covid-19-atiku-tells-nigerians\",\"name\":\"We will bid farewell to COVID-19 \u2013 Atiku tells Nigerians - 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