{"id":223123,"date":"2026-02-08T00:01:16","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T22:01:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-captain-yakubu-to-be-turbaned-abeneche-attah-igala-april-4\/"},"modified":"2026-02-08T00:01:16","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T22:01:16","slug":"nigeria-captain-yakubu-to-be-turbaned-abeneche-attah-igala-april-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-captain-yakubu-to-be-turbaned-abeneche-attah-igala-april-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: Captain Yakubu to Be Turbaned Abeneche-Attah Igala April 4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"46\">The Attah-Igala and chairman of the Kogi State Council of Traditional Rulers, Dr. Matthew Alaji Opaluwa Oguche Akpa, will on April 4, 2026, officially turban Captain Aliyu Ahmad Yakubu, Group Managing Director and CEO of Pyatic Group, with the prestigious honorary chieftaincy title of Abeneche-Attah Igala.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">The coronation ceremony is scheduled to take place at the Atta&#8217;s Palace in Idah, the traditional headquarters of the Igala Kingdom in Kogi State.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"50\">In a letter dated December 12, 2025, signed on&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202602060506.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 Attah-Igala and chairman of the Kogi State Council of Traditional Rulers, Dr. Matthew Alaji Opaluwa Oguche Akpa, will on April 4, 2026, officially turban Captain Aliyu Ahmad Yakubu, Group Managing Director and CEO of Pyatic Group, with the prestigious honorary chieftaincy title of Abeneche-Attah Igala. The coronation ceremony is scheduled to take place at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":223124,"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":[249],"tags":[53603,258,256,8142,10844,10890,257,4687,393,254,42919,25788],"class_list":["post-223123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-abenecheattah","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-april","tag-captain","tag-igala","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-turbaned","tag-yakubu"],"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\/223123","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=223123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223123\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/223124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}