{"id":17937,"date":"2019-05-15T16:29:11","date_gmt":"2019-05-15T16:29:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=17937"},"modified":"2019-05-15T16:29:11","modified_gmt":"2019-05-15T16:29:11","slug":"saudi-king-invites-buhari-for-lesser-pilgrimage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=17937","title":{"rendered":"Saudi king invites Buhari for lesser pilgrimage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Muhammadu Buhari has accepted the invitation of King Salman Bin Abdulaziz, the ruler of Saudi Arabia to perform the\u00a0Umrah\u00a0(lesser pilgrimage) in the Kingdom.<br \/>\nAs a result of this, a statement from the President&#8217;s office said, he and some close personal aides, will embark on the journey on Thursday, 16th May.<br \/>\nHe is expected back in the country on Tuesday, 21st May.<br \/>\nUmrah is an optional but recommended pilgrimage to Makkah that can be made at any time of the year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Muhammadu Buhari has accepted the invitation of King Salman Bin Abdulaziz, the ruler of Saudi Arabia to perform the\u00a0Umrah\u00a0(lesser pilgrimage) in the Kingdom. As a result of this, a statement from the President&#8217;s office said, he and some close personal aides, will embark on the journey on Thursday, 16th May. He is expected back [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":15803,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17937\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}