{"id":66480,"date":"2025-05-25T05:21:00","date_gmt":"2025-05-25T05:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=66480"},"modified":"2025-05-25T05:21:00","modified_gmt":"2025-05-25T05:21:00","slug":"us-embassy-goes-quiet-in-abuja-lagos-for-memorial-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/05\/25\/us-embassy-goes-quiet-in-abuja-lagos-for-memorial-day\/","title":{"rendered":"US Embassy Goes Quiet in Abuja, Lagos for Memorial Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Patrick Idowu<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The United States Embassy in Abuja and the Consulate General in Lagos will not open for business on Monday, May 26, as the US marks Memorial Day, a solemn national holiday honoring fallen military personnel.<\/p>\n<p>Announcing the closure through its official X account, the US Mission in Nigeria said the suspension of routine consular services is in observance of the annual remembrance held every last Monday in May.<\/p>\n<p>Memorial Day is widely commemorated across the United States with ceremonies, tributes, and national reflection on the sacrifices of servicemen and women.<\/p>\n<p>Regular operations at both the embassy and consulate are expected to resume on Tuesday, May 27.<\/p>\n<p>The US Mission has advised those in need of emergency consular assistance to visit its official website for guidance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Patrick Idowu The United States Embassy in Abuja and the Consulate General in Lagos will not open for business on Monday, May 26, as the US marks Memorial Day, a solemn national holiday honoring fallen military personnel. Announcing the closure through its official X account, the US Mission in Nigeria said the suspension of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":66481,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-66480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66480","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=66480"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66480\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66482,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66480\/revisions\/66482"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}