{"id":25683,"date":"2020-04-02T15:04:38","date_gmt":"2020-04-02T14:04:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=25683"},"modified":"2020-04-02T15:04:38","modified_gmt":"2020-04-02T14:04:38","slug":"finance-ministry-pulls-embarrassing-twitter-post-begging-south-african-billionaire-for-ventilators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=25683","title":{"rendered":"Finance Ministry pulls embarrassing Twitter post begging South African billionaire for ventilators"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After a viral post from the Federal Ministry of Finance, Budget, and National Planning begging South African billionaire, Elon Musk, for ventilators to tackle COVID-19; and drew the ire of Nigerians on social media, the ministry pulled down the post.<br \/>\n<figure id=\"attachment_25684\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-25684\" style=\"width: 169px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-25684\" src=\"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Screenshot_20200402-143721_WhatsApp-169x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"169\" height=\"300\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-25684\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The pulled Twitter post<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nAccording to Mr. Yunusa Tanko Abdullahi, the Special Adviser, Media and Communications to the Honourable Minister of Finance Budget and National Planning, the post was pulled because it was unauthorised.<br \/>\nHis words: &#8220;An unauthorised post was made on the verified Twitter handle of the Federal Ministry of Finance, Budget and National Planning.<br \/>\n&#8220;The fact of the post is regrettable because of which it is brought down.<br \/>\n&#8220;We have made sure our internal processes are strengthened that such doesn&#8217;t happen again.<br \/>\n&#8220;The error is highly regrettable.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a viral post from the Federal Ministry of Finance, Budget, and National Planning begging South African billionaire, Elon Musk, for ventilators to tackle COVID-19; and drew the ire of Nigerians on social media, the ministry pulled down the post. According to Mr. Yunusa Tanko Abdullahi, the Special Adviser, Media and Communications to the Honourable [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":21522,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5773,7],"tags":[1402,1403,1404],"class_list":["post-25683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","category-news","tag-finance","tag-musk","tag-ventilators"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25683","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=25683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25683\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}