{"id":13317,"date":"2020-05-14T08:46:04","date_gmt":"2020-05-14T08:46:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?p=13317"},"modified":"2020-05-14T08:46:12","modified_gmt":"2020-05-14T08:46:12","slug":"bauchi-govt-relaxes-covid-19-lockdown-for-farmers-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?p=13317","title":{"rendered":"Bauchi govt relaxes COVID-19 lockdown for farmers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Bauchi State Governor, Bala Mohammed<\/a>, Wednesday ordered the relaxation of the COVID-19 lockdown in Azare and other affected areas to enable farmers to water their farms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Senior Special Assistant to the governor on Media, Mukhtar Gidado, who disclosed this in a statement in Bauchi, said the directive covers Saturday only.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The governor\u2019s aide added that the decision would allow residents of the state to restock food.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to him, the governor had promised people of the affected areas that his administration would soon release food items to the state palliative committee for distribution to the vulnerable people during the period.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gidado said: \u201cFollowing the 10 days total lockdown in Katagum, Giade and Zaki local government areas of the state, the governor has approved Saturday as a restriction-free day to allow people restock food and other essential consumables.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cDry season farmers are also allowed to visit and water their farms during the restriction-free period without any hindrance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe governor<\/a> has assured residents of the affected areas that his administration will soon provide food items thorough the state palliative committee for distribution to the needy.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bauchi State Governor, Bala Mohammed, Wednesday ordered the relaxation of the COVID-19 lockdown in Azare and other affected areas to enable farmers to water their farms. The Senior Special Assistant to the governor on Media, Mukhtar Gidado, who disclosed this in a statement in Bauchi, said the directive covers Saturday only. The governor\u2019s aide added that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[19,27],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\nBauchi govt relaxes COVID-19 lockdown for farmers » WatchDog Plus Media<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?p=13317\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Odofin\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?p=13317#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Agriculture\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?cat=19\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":3,\"name\":\"Bauchi govt relaxes COVID-19 lockdown for farmers\"}]}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Bauchi govt relaxes COVID-19 lockdown for farmers » WatchDog Plus Media","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?p=13317","author":"Odofin","schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?p=13317#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Agriculture","item":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?cat=19"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"Bauchi govt relaxes COVID-19 lockdown for farmers"}]}]}},"rttpg_featured_image_url":null,"rttpg_author":{"display_name":"Odofin","author_link":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?author=2"},"rttpg_comment":0,"rttpg_category":"<a href=\"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?cat=19\" rel=\"category\">Agriculture<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?cat=27\" rel=\"category\">COVID-19<\/a>","rttpg_excerpt":"Bauchi State Governor, Bala Mohammed, Wednesday ordered the relaxation of the COVID-19 lockdown in Azare and other affected areas to enable farmers to water their farms. The Senior Special Assistant to the governor on Media, Mukhtar Gidado, who disclosed this in a statement in Bauchi, said the directive covers Saturday only. The governor\u2019s aide added that…","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13317"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13317"}],"version-history":[{"count":-4,"href":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13317\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}