{"id":1975,"date":"2024-11-06T18:58:11","date_gmt":"2024-11-06T18:58:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swifteradio.com\/?p=1975"},"modified":"2026-03-10T17:58:29","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T17:58:29","slug":"video-defence-minister-mourns-passing-of-army-chief-lagbaja","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swifteradio.com\/af\/video-defence-minister-mourns-passing-of-army-chief-lagbaja\/","title":{"rendered":"(VIDEO) Defence Minister Mourns Passing of Army Chief, Lagbaja"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Defence Minister Mourns Passing of Army Chief, Lagbaja\" width=\"1170\" height=\"658\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Q2j20C5rek8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Watch, Like, Share &amp; Subscribe to our Youtube Channel&#x2764;&#xfe0f;<\/p>\n<p>The Minister of Defence, Abubakar Badaru, and his counterpart, Bello Matawalle, have condoled with President Bola Tinubu over the demise of Chief Of Army Staff, Lt. General Taoreed Lagbaja who passed away on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n<p>Describing the death of COAS Lagbaja as tragic, the Minister narrated the demise of the Chief Of Army Staff as a great loss to the nation.<\/p>\n<p>He recounted Lt. General Lagbaja as a gallant officer and a warrior who served in so many theaters and performed credibly at service.<\/p>\n<p>Badaru prayed for the repose of Lt. General Taoreed Lagbaja\u2019s soul.<br \/>\nAlso, the Minister of State for Defence, Bello Matawalle, lauded COAS service to the nation.<\/p>\n<p>-Abubakar Badaru-Minister of Defence<\/p>\n<p>Source: Swifteradio.com<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Watch, Like, Share &amp; Subscribe to our Youtube Channel&#x2764;&#xfe0f; The Minister of Defence, Abubakar Badaru, and his counterpart, Bello Matawalle, have condoled with President Bola Tinubu over&hellip;<\/p>","protected":false},"author":126,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[104],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swifteradio.com\/af\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swifteradio.com\/af\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swifteradio.com\/af\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swifteradio.com\/af\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/126"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swifteradio.com\/af\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swifteradio.com\/af\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1975\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swifteradio.com\/af\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swifteradio.com\/af\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swifteradio.com\/af\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}