{"id":193172,"date":"2025-03-09T03:31:36","date_gmt":"2025-03-09T01:31:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-ex-presidential-spokesperson-doyin-okupe-is-dead\/"},"modified":"2025-03-09T03:31:36","modified_gmt":"2025-03-09T01:31:36","slug":"nigeria-ex-presidential-spokesperson-doyin-okupe-is-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-ex-presidential-spokesperson-doyin-okupe-is-dead\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: Ex-Presidential Spokesperson, Doyin Okupe, Is Dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"10\"><em>Mr Okupe reportedly died in a private hospital in Lagos.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"8\">A former presidential spokesperson, Doyin Okupe, is dead.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"19\">Mr Okupe, a medical doctor, reportedly died in the early hours of Friday in a private hospital in Lagos.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"3\">He was 72.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"8\">The details of his death are not known.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"17\">PREMIUM TIMES could not reach any member of the family or associate to confirm Mr Okupe&#8217;s death<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"11\">However, The Nation newspaper reported that a family source confirmed it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"15\">Mr Okupe served as special adviser on media and publicity&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202503070371.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>Mr Okupe reportedly died in a private hospital in Lagos. A former presidential spokesperson, Doyin Okupe, is dead. Mr Okupe, a medical doctor, reportedly died in the early hours of Friday in a private hospital in Lagos. He was 72. The details of his death are not known. PREMIUM TIMES could not reach any member [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":193173,"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":[258,256,8096,50811,50810,257,4687,393,28677,254,7181],"class_list":["post-193172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-dead","tag-doyin","tag-expresidential","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-okupe","tag-south-africa-today","tag-spokesperson"],"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\/193172","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=193172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193172\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}