{"id":46152,"date":"2024-08-09T09:00:26","date_gmt":"2024-08-09T09:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/gusau-mourns-former-caf-president-hayatou\/"},"modified":"2024-08-09T09:00:26","modified_gmt":"2024-08-09T09:00:26","slug":"gusau-mourns-former-caf-president-hayatou","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/gusau-mourns-former-caf-president-hayatou\/","title":{"rendered":"Gusau mourns former CAF president, Hayatou"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>President of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) has commiserated with the Cameroonian fraternity over the death of former President of Confederation of African Football (CAF), Issa Hayatou.<\/p>\n<p>Hayatou died after a protracted illness in the French capital, Paris, on the eve of his 78th birthday.<\/p>\n<p>He served as CAF\u2019s president between 10th March, 1988 to 16th March, 2017.<\/p>\n<p>After 29 years in office as CAF President, Hayatou lost the bid for a fresh term in 2017 to Madagascar\u2019s Ahmad Ahmad.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe NFF and the entire Nigeria football family are terribly saddened by the death of Alhaji Issa Hayatou.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe was a great and much-loved leader of African football and did his best to leave African football greater than he met it,\u201d Gusau said in a statement released by the NFF.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAlhaji Hayatou was a man of strong character and integrity. We love him but God loves him more.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe pray that Almighty Allah will grant him eternal rest and also grant the Cameroonian, nay African football family the fortitude to bear the loss.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Gusau mourns former CAF president, Hayatou<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) has commiserated with the Cameroonian fraternity over the death of former President of&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":46153,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8853,2724,23395,15,160],"tags":[111,1620,2726,23396,1094,180,1095,201],"class_list":["post-46152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-caf-president","category-gusau","category-hayatou","category-news","category-sport","tag-caf","tag-former","tag-gusau","tag-hayatou","tag-mourns","tag-news","tag-president","tag-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46152\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}