{"id":34685,"date":"2024-05-30T09:00:39","date_gmt":"2024-05-30T09:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/biafra-day-streets-shops-locked-as-imo-residents-observe-ipob-sit-at-home-order\/"},"modified":"2024-05-30T09:00:39","modified_gmt":"2024-05-30T09:00:39","slug":"biafra-day-streets-shops-locked-as-imo-residents-observe-ipob-sit-at-home-order","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/biafra-day-streets-shops-locked-as-imo-residents-observe-ipob-sit-at-home-order\/","title":{"rendered":"Biafra Day: Streets, shops locked as Imo residents observe IPOB sit-at-home order"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Economic activities were halted on Thursday in Owerri, Imo State, as residents stayed indoors in compliance with the sit-at-home order by the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB.<\/p>\n<p>This is coming despite assurances from the police of their safety.<\/p>\n<p>It was learnt that shops, markets, and public and private offices were closed.<\/p>\n<p>Recall that IPOB had ordered residents of the Southeast to sit-at-home to mark Biafra Day.<\/p>\n<p>IPOB had scheduled May 30 as a day to remember those who paid the supreme price during the Biafra civil war.<\/p>\n<p>In its order, IPOB also cautioned the West African Examinations Council, WAEC, against conducting its examination in the Southeast today, Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Biafra Day: Streets, shops locked as Imo residents observe IPOB sit-at-home order<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Economic activities were halted on Thursday in Owerri, Imo State, as residents stayed indoors in compliance with the sit-at-home order&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34686,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15587,451,4326,15],"tags":[706,13,118,12,180],"class_list":["post-34685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-biafra-day","category-imo","category-ipob","category-news","tag-day","tag-biafra","tag-imo","tag-ipob","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34685","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=34685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34685\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}