{"id":192693,"date":"2025-03-03T03:19:40","date_gmt":"2025-03-03T01:19:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-at-state-burial-tinubu-eulogizes-nujomas-legacy-as-warrior-nation-builder\/"},"modified":"2025-03-03T03:19:40","modified_gmt":"2025-03-03T01:19:40","slug":"nigeria-at-state-burial-tinubu-eulogizes-nujomas-legacy-as-warrior-nation-builder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-at-state-burial-tinubu-eulogizes-nujomas-legacy-as-warrior-nation-builder\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: At State Burial, Tinubu Eulogizes Nujoma&#8217;s Legacy As Warrior, Nation-Builder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"12\">Deji Elumoye in Abuja \u2014 <em><em>.Says founding Namibian president sacrificed comfort for his people&#8217;s freedom, dignity, justice<\/em><\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"40\">President Bola Tinubu on Saturday paid glowing tribute to the late founding President of the Republic of Namibia, Dr. Sam Shafiishuna Nujoma, describing him as a warrior who galvanised Nigeria and other African nations to fight for his country&#8217;s freedom.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"50\">The late Nujoma, a revered figure who led his country to gain Independence, and steered the nation on the path towards&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202503020023.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>Deji Elumoye in Abuja \u2014 .Says founding Namibian president sacrificed comfort for his people&#8217;s freedom, dignity, justice President Bola Tinubu on Saturday paid glowing tribute to the late founding President of the Republic of Namibia, Dr. Sam Shafiishuna Nujoma, describing him as a warrior who galvanised Nigeria and other African nations to fight for his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":192694,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn01.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00661558:c02da502d6af7fa918b6fc4c1559e4bd:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[258,256,10033,27706,11879,50773,257,4687,393,9928,254,6017,8308,23993],"class_list":["post-192693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-burial","tag-eulogizes","tag-legacy","tag-nationbuilder","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-nujomas","tag-south-africa-today","tag-state","tag-tinubu","tag-warrior"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn01.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00661558:c02da502d6af7fa918b6fc4c1559e4bd:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192693","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=192693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192693\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/192694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}