{"id":184055,"date":"2024-11-06T13:27:48","date_gmt":"2024-11-06T11:27:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-eight-things-to-know-about-late-chief-of-army-staff-taoreed-lagbaja\/"},"modified":"2024-11-06T13:27:48","modified_gmt":"2024-11-06T11:27:48","slug":"nigeria-eight-things-to-know-about-late-chief-of-army-staff-taoreed-lagbaja","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-eight-things-to-know-about-late-chief-of-army-staff-taoreed-lagbaja\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: Eight Things to Know About Late Chief of Army Staff, Taoreed Lagbaja"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"9\">The Chief of Army Staff, Taoreed Lagbaja, is dead.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"17\">This was confirmed in a statement by the Special Adviser to the President, Bayo Onanuga, on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">&#8220;President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, regrets to announce the passing of Lt. General Taoreed Abiodun Lagbaja, Chief of the Army Staff, at age 56,&#8221; the statement read.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"9\">Here are 8 things to know late COAS Lagbaja:<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"36\">1. Lagbaja was born on February 28, 1968, in Ilobu, Irepodun Local Government Area, Osun State. He spent&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202411060203.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Nigeria\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/nigeria\/\">Nigeria<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Chief of Army Staff, Taoreed Lagbaja, is dead. This was confirmed in a statement by the Special Adviser to the President, Bayo Onanuga, on Wednesday. &#8220;President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, regrets to announce the passing of Lt. General Taoreed Abiodun Lagbaja, Chief of the Army Staff, at age 56,&#8221; the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":184056,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[258,256,4361,6510,49906,8262,257,4687,393,254,6221,49905],"class_list":["post-184055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-army","tag-chief","tag-lagbaja","tag-late","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-staff","tag-taoreed"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184055\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/184056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}