{"id":197038,"date":"2025-04-29T11:49:07","date_gmt":"2025-04-29T09:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/cameroon\/nigeria-comedian-okey-bakassi-appointed-traditional-ruler-in-imo-community\/"},"modified":"2025-04-29T11:49:07","modified_gmt":"2025-04-29T09:49:07","slug":"nigeria-comedian-okey-bakassi-appointed-traditional-ruler-in-imo-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/cameroon\/nigeria-comedian-okey-bakassi-appointed-traditional-ruler-in-imo-community\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: Comedian Okey Bakassi Appointed Traditional Ruler in Imo Community"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\"><em>Okey Bakassi, the only Nigerian entertainer recently assuming a traditional ruler role, was a senior special adviser (SSA) on entertainment matters to former Imo State Governor Ikedi Ohakim.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"20\">Ace actor and comedian, Okey Bakassi, has been appointed the traditional ruler of the Umuihuocha Autonomous Community in Imo State.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"16\">The Umuihuocha Autonomous Community is a recognised autonomous community in Mbaise, a region in Imo State.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"14\">He is the only Nigerian entertainer who has recently assumed a&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202504290065.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Cameroon\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/cameroon\/\">Cameroon<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Okey Bakassi, the only Nigerian entertainer recently assuming a traditional ruler role, was a senior special adviser (SSA) on entertainment matters to former Imo State Governor Ikedi Ohakim. Ace actor and comedian, Okey Bakassi, has been appointed the traditional ruler of the Umuihuocha Autonomous Community in Imo State. The Umuihuocha Autonomous Community is a recognised [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":197039,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[376],"tags":[258,256,10924,8821,377,14850,7963,9319,257,4687,43040,17797,254,9464],"class_list":["post-197038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cameroon","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-appointed","tag-bakassi","tag-cameroon-news","tag-comedian","tag-community","tag-imo","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-okey","tag-ruler","tag-south-africa-today","tag-traditional"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.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\/197038","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=197038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197038\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/197039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}