{"id":26113,"date":"2014-05-03T20:14:47","date_gmt":"2014-05-03T19:14:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=26113"},"modified":"2014-05-03T20:14:47","modified_gmt":"2014-05-03T19:14:47","slug":"fg-shuts-abuja-for-world-economic-forum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/fg-shuts-abuja-for-world-economic-forum\/","title":{"rendered":"FG shuts Abuja for World Economic Forum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin: 7px  0px  0.3em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 14px; font-family: Georgia,Times,; vertical-align: baseline; text-align: justify; line-height: 21px;\">The Federal Government has ordered the closure of all government offices and schools in the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, during the period of the World Economic Forum, WEF,\u00a0<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">\u00a0scheduled to hold from May 7 to 9.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 7px  0px  0.3em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 14px; font-family: Georgia,Times,; vertical-align: baseline; text-align: justify; line-height: 21px;\">According to \u00a0the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Pius Anyim, stated that the directive is to ensure free flow of traffic in the city centre.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 7px  0px  0.3em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 14px; font-family: Georgia,Times,; vertical-align: baseline; text-align: justify; line-height: 21px;\">The statement said \u201cThis is to inform the general public that the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Dr. Goodluck\u00a0 Jonathan, GCFR, has approved, as part of arrangements for the successful hosting of the World Economic Forum Africa, that all Government Offices and Schools in the Federal Capital Territory, expect those on essential services, are to be closed from Wednesday, 7th to Friday, 9th May, 2014.\u00a0 Private Organisations with large number of staff may also wish to close down.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 7px  0px  0.3em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 14px; font-family: Georgia,Times,; vertical-align: baseline; text-align: justify; line-height: 21px;\">\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Federal Government has ordered the closure of all government offices and schools in the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, during the period of the World Economic Forum, WEF,\u00a0\u00a0scheduled to hold&hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26114,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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