{"id":26938,"date":"2020-07-04T15:56:04","date_gmt":"2020-07-04T15:56:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/nigeria\/?p=26938"},"modified":"2020-07-04T15:56:04","modified_gmt":"2020-07-04T15:56:04","slug":"gov-abiodun-extends-lockdown-by-two-weeks-in-ogun-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/gov-abiodun-extends-lockdown-by-two-weeks-in-ogun-state","title":{"rendered":"Gov Abiodun extends lockdown by two weeks in Ogun State"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Africa Press-Nigeria:<\/p>\n<p>The Governor of Ogun State, Prince Dapo Abiodun has announced that worship centers and schools would remain closed for another two weeks in the state.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement made available to newsmen on Friday night by his Chief Press Secretary, Kunle Somorin, Abiodun said available data and opinions of experts continue to indicate that the fight against the virus is far from being won.<\/p>\n<p>He disclosed that an Ogun border Local Government is one of those with the highest number of cases in the country because of the level of testing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis high level of prevalence may also be obtainable in other Local Governments as we ramp up testing. All this emphasises the need for us to exercise a high level of restraint as the State can neither afford more fatalities nor allow the rate of sickness to outnumber the capacity to manage the sick.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa Press-Nigeria: The Governor of Ogun State, Prince Dapo Abiodun has announced that worship centers and schools would remain closed for another two weeks in the state. In a statement made available to newsmen on Friday night by his Chief Press Secretary, Kunle Somorin, Abiodun said available data and opinions of experts continue to indicate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":14274,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[793,386],"class_list":["post-26938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-abiodun","tag-ogun"],"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>Gov Abiodun extends lockdown by two weeks in Ogun State - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Africa Press-Nigeria:The Governor of Ogun State, Prince Dapo Abiodun has announced that worship centers and schools would remain closed for another\" \/>\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\/gov-abiodun-extends-lockdown-by-two-weeks-in-ogun-state\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Gov Abiodun extends lockdown by two weeks in Ogun State\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Africa Press-Nigeria:The Governor of Ogun State, Prince Dapo Abiodun has announced that worship centers and schools would remain closed for another\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/gov-abiodun-extends-lockdown-by-two-weeks-in-ogun-state\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-07-04T15:56:04+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/2019\/08\/Prince-Dapo-Abiodun-697x470.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"697\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"470\" \/>\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\/gov-abiodun-extends-lockdown-by-two-weeks-in-ogun-state#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/gov-abiodun-extends-lockdown-by-two-weeks-in-ogun-state\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"alico\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/50afd2ef4f0e900bd0a176404a8484a7\"},\"headline\":\"Gov Abiodun extends lockdown by two weeks in Ogun State\",\"datePublished\":\"2020-07-04T15:56:04+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/gov-abiodun-extends-lockdown-by-two-weeks-in-ogun-state\"},\"wordCount\":157,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/gov-abiodun-extends-lockdown-by-two-weeks-in-ogun-state#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/2019\/08\/Prince-Dapo-Abiodun-697x470.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Abiodun\",\"Ogun\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/gov-abiodun-extends-lockdown-by-two-weeks-in-ogun-state#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/gov-abiodun-extends-lockdown-by-two-weeks-in-ogun-state\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/gov-abiodun-extends-lockdown-by-two-weeks-in-ogun-state\",\"name\":\"Gov Abiodun extends lockdown by two weeks in Ogun State - 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