{"id":17482,"date":"2024-02-16T14:02:55","date_gmt":"2024-02-16T14:02:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/economic-hardship-gov-zulum-declares-one-day-prayer-for-divine-intervention\/"},"modified":"2024-02-16T14:02:55","modified_gmt":"2024-02-16T14:02:55","slug":"economic-hardship-gov-zulum-declares-one-day-prayer-for-divine-intervention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/economic-hardship-gov-zulum-declares-one-day-prayer-for-divine-intervention\/","title":{"rendered":"Economic Hardship: Gov Zulum declares one-day prayer for divine intervention"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Governor Babagana Zulum of Borno State has urged citizens of the state to fast and offer special prayers on Monday for divine intervention over the current hardship caused by inflation.<\/p>\n<p>Zulum in his broadcast to the people of the state implored traditional rulers, clerics and citizens to observe a one-day voluntary fast on Monday for peace, prosperity and the development of the state, NAN reports.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am deeply troubled by the recent hardships faced by our citizens, particularly the high cost of food items.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI understand the burden that this places on families and individuals, and I want to assure you that we are taking decisive steps to alleviate this issue.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur government is focusing on reviving agriculture in the state, intending to increase food production and reduce our reliance on food palliative.<\/p>\n<p>The governor also expressed my gratitude to security forces and volunteers for the sacrifices they are making to safeguard lives in the state and create a peaceful society for prosperity and development.<\/p>\n<p>He said that his administration was engaged with stakeholders particularly those in the business of essential commodities that include all forms of grains and building materials and had taken far-reaching decisions to mitigate the rising cost of the essential goods.<\/p>\n<p>Economic Hardship: Gov Zulum declares one-day prayer for divine intervention<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Governor Babagana Zulum of Borno State has urged citizens of the state to fast and offer special prayers on Monday&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17483,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10314,15,4216],"tags":[904,903,180,4217],"class_list":["post-17482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-economic-hardship","category-news","category-zulum","tag-economic","tag-hardship","tag-news","tag-zulum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17482\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}