{"id":63470,"date":"2025-03-28T15:07:10","date_gmt":"2025-03-28T15:07:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=63470"},"modified":"2025-03-28T15:07:10","modified_gmt":"2025-03-28T15:07:10","slug":"delta-nursing-school-bows-to-pressure-withdraws-query-issued-to-student","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/03\/28\/delta-nursing-school-bows-to-pressure-withdraws-query-issued-to-student\/","title":{"rendered":"Delta Nursing School Bows to Pressure, Withdraws Query Issued to Student"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Adenike Lawal <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Delta State College of Nursing Science has retracted the query issued to a student, Osatohemwen Edobor, following public backlash over a viral video involving First Lady Oluremi Tinubu.<\/p>\n<p>Edobor was initially sanctioned for sharing a video showing nursing students refusing to chant praises for Mrs. Tinubu during a health program in Asaba.<\/p>\n<p>The event compere attempted to lead a song praising the First Lady, but the students rejected it with a blunt response.<\/p>\n<p>The query sparked outrage among Nigerians, with activists like Omoyele Sowore and lawyer Inibehe Effiong calling for its withdrawal.<\/p>\n<p>Amid mounting criticism, the school, in a letter signed by Provost Mrs. R. Evb\u00f6daghe, announced the query&#8217;s cancellation.<\/p>\n<p>The directive reportedly came from Delta State\u2019s Commissioner for Health, Dr. Joseph Onojaeme.<\/p>\n<p>The school apologized for the incident and instructed Edobor to return the original query letter.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-63472\" src=\"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/IMG-20250328-WA0050-240x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/IMG-20250328-WA0050-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/IMG-20250328-WA0050-768x959.jpg 768w, https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/IMG-20250328-WA0050.jpg 820w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Adenike Lawal Delta State College of Nursing Science has retracted the query issued to a student, Osatohemwen Edobor, following public backlash over a viral video involving First Lady Oluremi Tinubu. Edobor was initially sanctioned for sharing a video showing nursing students refusing to chant praises for Mrs. Tinubu during a health program in Asaba. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":63471,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[183],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-63470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63470"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63470\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63473,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63470\/revisions\/63473"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}