{"id":1250,"date":"2023-04-09T06:49:45","date_gmt":"2023-04-09T06:49:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/?p=1250"},"modified":"2023-04-09T06:49:45","modified_gmt":"2023-04-09T06:49:45","slug":"breaking-news-former-minister-of-justice-bola-ajibola-dies-at-89","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/2023\/04\/09\/breaking-news-former-minister-of-justice-bola-ajibola-dies-at-89\/","title":{"rendered":"Breaking News: Former Minister Of Justice, Bola Ajibola, Dies At 89"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">A former Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Prince Bola Ajibola, is dead.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The development was confirmed on Sunday by the first son of the late eminent jurist, Maruf Adesegun Ajibola (SAN).<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Maruf in a message on Sunday said his father passed on at 89 in the early hours of Sunday in his Abeokuta home in the Ogun State capital.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The message reads in part: \u201cWith very deep heart and Gratitude to Almighty Allah: Our Dad Prince Bola Ajibola departed this world over the midnight.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cMay Almighty Allah bless him with Aljanah firdaus.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Prince Ajibola was a Judge at the International Court of Justice between 1991 and 1994.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">He was the founder of the foremost faith-based private citadel, Crescent University, Abeokuta.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">He was once the President of the Nigerian Bar Association from 1984 to 1985.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Late Ajibola was the AGF during junta of former Military President Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A former Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Prince Bola Ajibola, is dead. The development was confirmed<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1251,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1250"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1250\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1252,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1250\/revisions\/1252"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}