{"id":2136,"date":"2024-11-16T23:25:11","date_gmt":"2024-11-16T23:25:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swifteradio.com\/update\/?p=2136"},"modified":"2026-03-10T18:01:54","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T18:01:54","slug":"video-how-lagbaja-was-buried-amid-grief-tributes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swifteradio.com\/update\/video-how-lagbaja-was-buried-amid-grief-tributes\/","title":{"rendered":"(VIDEO) How Lagbaja Was Buried Amid Grief, Tributes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"How Lagbaja Was Buried Amid Grief, Tributes\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5Bxyd8VOpoA?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 dir=\"ltr\">Kindly Watch, Like Share and Subscribe to Our Youtube Channel<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><b>Tears and tributes flowed freely as the late Chief of Army Staff (COAS) Lt. General Taoreed Lagbaja was laid to rest in Abuja,<\/b> Nigeria&#8217;s federal capital.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The burial took place at the National Cemetery in the nation\u2019s capital marking an end to\u00a0two days of funeral rites\u00a0that began in Lagos earlier in the week.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">His body was lowered to Mother Earth at exactly 4:41 pm in the ceremony that lasted four for hours.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Lagbaja\u2019s casket, draped in Nigeria\u2019s green and white colours, arrived at the cemetery around 3 pm in a white funeral wagon after a funeral service at the National Christian Centre in Abuja.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Several dignitaries attended the event. President Bola Tinubu, Vice President Kashim Shettima; the Acting Chief of Army Staff Lt.Gen. Olufemi Oluyede; the Chief of Defence Staff General Christopher Musa; the Minister of Defence Abubakar Badaru and other top government officials and military brass graced the occasion.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Source: Swifteradio.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kindly Watch, Like Share and Subscribe to Our Youtube Channel Tears and tributes flowed freely as the late Chief of Army Staff (COAS) Lt. General Taoreed Lagbaja was laid to rest in Abuja, Nigeria&#8217;s federal capital. The burial took place at the National Cemetery in the nation\u2019s capital marking an end to\u00a0two days of funeral [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":126,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swifteradio.com\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swifteradio.com\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swifteradio.com\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swifteradio.com\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/126"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swifteradio.com\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swifteradio.com\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2136\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swifteradio.com\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swifteradio.com\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swifteradio.com\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}