{"id":66966,"date":"2025-05-30T14:30:32","date_gmt":"2025-05-30T14:30:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=66966"},"modified":"2025-05-30T14:30:32","modified_gmt":"2025-05-30T14:30:32","slug":"biafra-day-umuahia-streets-deserted-as-residents-observe-sit-at-home-order","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/05\/30\/biafra-day-umuahia-streets-deserted-as-residents-observe-sit-at-home-order\/","title":{"rendered":"Biafra Day: Umuahia Streets Deserted as Residents Observe Sit-at-Home Order"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Anifowoshe Oladipupo<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Umuahia, the capital of Abia State, was a ghost town on Friday as residents fully complied with the sit-at-home order declared by the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPoB), in honour of fallen Biafran heroes.<\/p>\n<p>Major markets, motor parks, shops, banks, and schools remained shut throughout the day.<\/p>\n<p>Commercial activities were completely grounded, with residents staying indoors and relying on available cash, as banking services were inaccessible.<\/p>\n<p>No security operatives were seen patrolling the streets, but the day passed without any reports of violence or clashes between security forces and IPoB members.<\/p>\n<p>In some neighborhoods, a few youths were seen playing football on the deserted roads, while others sat outside their homes, quietly discussing current national events.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Anifowoshe Oladipupo &nbsp; Umuahia, the capital of Abia State, was a ghost town on Friday as residents fully complied with the sit-at-home order declared by the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPoB), in honour of fallen Biafran heroes. Major markets, motor parks, shops, banks, and schools remained shut throughout the day. Commercial activities were completely [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":66968,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66966","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\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66966"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66966\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66969,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66966\/revisions\/66969"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}