{"id":57580,"date":"2024-11-06T12:04:38","date_gmt":"2024-11-06T12:04:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/lagbaja-president-tinubu-postpones-federal-executive-council-meeting-in-honour-of-coas\/"},"modified":"2024-11-06T12:04:38","modified_gmt":"2024-11-06T12:04:38","slug":"lagbaja-president-tinubu-postpones-federal-executive-council-meeting-in-honour-of-coas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/lagbaja-president-tinubu-postpones-federal-executive-council-meeting-in-honour-of-coas\/","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING: Lagbaja: President Tinubu postpones Federal Executive Council meeting in honour of COAS"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>President Bola Tinubu has directed that the Federal Executive Council meeting be postponed to another date which will be announced in due time.<\/p>\n<p>This was made known in a statement signed by Tinubu\u2019s spokesperson, Bayo Onanuga on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The meeting which was initially scheduled for today was postponed in honour of Lt. General Taoreed Lagbaja, the Chief of Army Staff, who passed away on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n<p>The statement reads, \u201cPresident Bola Ahmed Tinubu, commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces, has rescheduled the Federal Executive Council meeting till another date to be announced.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cInitially scheduled for today, the council meeting was postponed in honour of Lt. General Taoreed Lagbaja, the Chief of Army Staff, who passed away on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGeneral Lagbaja served as the Chief of Army Staff from June 19, 2023, till his death on November 5, 2024.<\/p>\n<p>The President also ordered flags to be flown at half-mast nationwide for seven days in honour of the departed general.<\/p>\n<p>BREAKING: Lagbaja: President Tinubu postpones Federal Executive Council meeting in honour of COAS<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Bola Tinubu has directed that the Federal Executive Council meeting be postponed to another date which will be announced&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":57581,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4813,8548,15,466,761],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-coas","category-lagbaja","category-news","category-tinubu","category-top-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57580","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=57580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57580\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}