{"id":26426,"date":"2020-06-19T15:53:30","date_gmt":"2020-06-19T15:53:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/nigeria\/?p=26426"},"modified":"2020-06-19T15:53:30","modified_gmt":"2020-06-19T15:53:30","slug":"edo-2020-dare-receives-national-sports-festival-committee-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/edo-2020-dare-receives-national-sports-festival-committee-report","title":{"rendered":"Edo 2020 &#8211; Dare Receives National Sports Festival Committee Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Africa Press-Nigeria:<\/p>\n<p>The Edo 2020 Sports Festival Committee set up to review Edo State&#8217;s readiness to host the event in the wake of the postponement due to the outbreak of Covid-19 has submitted its report to Minister of Youth and Sports Development, Mr. Sunday Dare.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking while submitting its report to the Minister on Thursday in Abuja, Chairman of the Committee Mr. Tonobok Okowa said the committee had done a thorough job which would help the government decide on the best possible date to host the Games.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Minister, &#8221; Exactly a month ago this committee was set up, I thank you for keeping to the schedule of your mandate. We shall study your report, sit down with relevant agencies of government to examine the recomendations there-in. The Ministry is properly guided by Covid-19 protocol and will not shy away from taking decisions based on the reality on the ground.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Dare further said: &#8220;This is a milestone to determine when to start sporting activities, but we would not jeorpadise the health and wellbeing of our sportsmen and women.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The commiitee had made several recommendations which would be scrutinized before a final decision is taken on the hosting of the festival.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa Press-Nigeria: The Edo 2020 Sports Festival Committee set up to review Edo State&#8217;s readiness to host the event in the wake of the postponement due to the outbreak of Covid-19 has submitted its report to Minister of Youth and Sports Development, Mr. Sunday Dare. Speaking while submitting its report to the Minister on Thursday [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":26427,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,18],"tags":[174,115],"class_list":["post-26426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-sport","tag-football-in-nigeria","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>Edo 2020 - Dare Receives National Sports Festival Committee Report - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Africa Press-Nigeria:The Edo 2020 Sports Festival Committee set up to review Edo State&#039;s readiness to host the event in the wake of the postponement due to\" \/>\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\/edo-2020-dare-receives-national-sports-festival-committee-report\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Edo 2020 - Dare Receives National Sports Festival Committee Report\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Africa Press-Nigeria:The Edo 2020 Sports Festival Committee set up to review Edo State&#039;s readiness to host the event in the wake of the postponement due to\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/edo-2020-dare-receives-national-sports-festival-committee-report\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-06-19T15:53:30+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2020\/06\/163c4eb1-sunday-dare.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"900\" \/>\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\/edo-2020-dare-receives-national-sports-festival-committee-report#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/edo-2020-dare-receives-national-sports-festival-committee-report\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"alico\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/50afd2ef4f0e900bd0a176404a8484a7\"},\"headline\":\"Edo 2020 &#8211; Dare Receives National Sports Festival Committee Report\",\"datePublished\":\"2020-06-19T15:53:30+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/edo-2020-dare-receives-national-sports-festival-committee-report\"},\"wordCount\":210,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/edo-2020-dare-receives-national-sports-festival-committee-report#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2020\/06\/163c4eb1-sunday-dare.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Football in Nigeria\",\"Nigerian sports\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Sport\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/edo-2020-dare-receives-national-sports-festival-committee-report#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/edo-2020-dare-receives-national-sports-festival-committee-report\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/edo-2020-dare-receives-national-sports-festival-committee-report\",\"name\":\"Edo 2020 - Dare Receives National Sports Festival Committee Report - Nigeria\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/edo-2020-dare-receives-national-sports-festival-committee-report#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/edo-2020-dare-receives-national-sports-festival-committee-report#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2020\/06\/163c4eb1-sunday-dare.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2020-06-19T15:53:30+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/50afd2ef4f0e900bd0a176404a8484a7\"},\"description\":\"Africa Press-Nigeria:The Edo 2020 Sports Festival Committee set up to review Edo State's readiness to host the event in the wake of the postponement due to\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/edo-2020-dare-receives-national-sports-festival-committee-report#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/edo-2020-dare-receives-national-sports-festival-committee-report\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/edo-2020-dare-receives-national-sports-festival-committee-report#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2020\/06\/163c4eb1-sunday-dare.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2020\/06\/163c4eb1-sunday-dare.jpg\",\"width\":1200,\"height\":900},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/edo-2020-dare-receives-national-sports-festival-committee-report#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Edo 2020 &#8211; Dare Receives National Sports Festival Committee Report\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/\",\"name\":\"Africa Press | Nigeria | Homepage\",\"description\":\"Just another Africa News Agency Sites site\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/50afd2ef4f0e900bd0a176404a8484a7\",\"name\":\"alico\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/author\/alico\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Edo 2020 - Dare Receives National Sports Festival Committee Report - Nigeria","description":"Africa Press-Nigeria:The Edo 2020 Sports Festival Committee set up to review Edo State's readiness to host the event in the wake of the postponement due to","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/edo-2020-dare-receives-national-sports-festival-committee-report","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Edo 2020 - Dare Receives National Sports Festival Committee Report","og_description":"Africa Press-Nigeria:The Edo 2020 Sports Festival Committee set up to review Edo State's readiness to host the event in the wake of the postponement due to","og_url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/edo-2020-dare-receives-national-sports-festival-committee-report","og_site_name":"Nigeria","article_published_time":"2020-06-19T15:53:30+00:00","og_image":[{"width":1200,"height":900,"url":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2020\/06\/163c4eb1-sunday-dare.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"alico","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"alico","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/edo-2020-dare-receives-national-sports-festival-committee-report#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/edo-2020-dare-receives-national-sports-festival-committee-report"},"author":{"name":"alico","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/50afd2ef4f0e900bd0a176404a8484a7"},"headline":"Edo 2020 &#8211; Dare Receives National Sports Festival Committee Report","datePublished":"2020-06-19T15:53:30+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/edo-2020-dare-receives-national-sports-festival-committee-report"},"wordCount":210,"commentCount":0,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/edo-2020-dare-receives-national-sports-festival-committee-report#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2020\/06\/163c4eb1-sunday-dare.jpg","keywords":["Football in Nigeria","Nigerian sports"],"articleSection":["all news","Sport"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/edo-2020-dare-receives-national-sports-festival-committee-report#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/edo-2020-dare-receives-national-sports-festival-committee-report","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/edo-2020-dare-receives-national-sports-festival-committee-report","name":"Edo 2020 - Dare Receives National Sports Festival Committee Report - Nigeria","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/edo-2020-dare-receives-national-sports-festival-committee-report#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/edo-2020-dare-receives-national-sports-festival-committee-report#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2020\/06\/163c4eb1-sunday-dare.jpg","datePublished":"2020-06-19T15:53:30+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/50afd2ef4f0e900bd0a176404a8484a7"},"description":"Africa Press-Nigeria:The Edo 2020 Sports Festival Committee set up to review Edo State's readiness to host the event in the wake of the postponement due to","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/edo-2020-dare-receives-national-sports-festival-committee-report#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/edo-2020-dare-receives-national-sports-festival-committee-report"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/edo-2020-dare-receives-national-sports-festival-committee-report#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2020\/06\/163c4eb1-sunday-dare.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2020\/06\/163c4eb1-sunday-dare.jpg","width":1200,"height":900},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/edo-2020-dare-receives-national-sports-festival-committee-report#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Edo 2020 &#8211; Dare Receives National Sports Festival Committee Report"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/","name":"Africa Press | Nigeria | Homepage","description":"Just another Africa News Agency Sites site","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/50afd2ef4f0e900bd0a176404a8484a7","name":"alico","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/author\/alico"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26426\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}