{"id":68329,"date":"2025-06-17T21:21:23","date_gmt":"2025-06-17T21:21:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=68329"},"modified":"2025-06-17T21:21:23","modified_gmt":"2025-06-17T21:21:23","slug":"benue-declares-public-holiday-ahead-of-tinubus-visit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/06\/17\/benue-declares-public-holiday-ahead-of-tinubus-visit\/","title":{"rendered":"Benue Declares Public Holiday Ahead of Tinubu\u2019s Visit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Huldah Shado<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Benue State Government has declared Wednesday, June 18, 2025, a public holiday to honor the visit of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to the state.<\/p>\n<p>President Tinubu is expected to embark on a one-day condolence visit to sympathize with the government and people of Benue over recent violent attacks that claimed several lives.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement signed by the Secretary to the State Government, Serumun Deborah Aber, the public holiday is intended to allow residents to give the President a warm welcome.<\/p>\n<p>Workers in essential services such as healthcare, security, and banking are exempt from the directive.<\/p>\n<p>The government called on citizens across the state to turn out en masse to receive the President and his entourage.<\/p>\n<p>President Tinubu\u2019s visit to Benue comes after he postponed an earlier scheduled trip to Kaduna, choosing instead to personally assess the security situation in the state and express solidarity with the affected communities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Huldah Shado &nbsp; The Benue State Government has declared Wednesday, June 18, 2025, a public holiday to honor the visit of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to the state. President Tinubu is expected to embark on a one-day condolence visit to sympathize with the government and people of Benue over recent violent attacks that claimed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":68331,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68329","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\/68329","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=68329"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68329\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68332,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68329\/revisions\/68332"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}