{"id":133460,"date":"2019-07-06T18:50:38","date_gmt":"2019-07-06T17:50:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=133460"},"modified":"2019-07-06T19:06:51","modified_gmt":"2019-07-06T18:06:51","slug":"104-year-old-nigerian-world-war-veteran-begs-buhari-over-pension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=133460","title":{"rendered":"104-year-old Nigerian World War veteran begs Buhari over pension"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A 104-year-old World War ll veteran of the Nigerian Army, Adamo Aduku on Saturday urged the President Muhammadu Buhari-led Government to pay his pension.<\/p>\n

Aduku was one of those conferred with the Chief of Army Staff World War II Veteran Award at the 2019 Army Day Celebration in Lagos.<\/p>\n

While speaking to journalists at the event, he lamented that since he was discharged as a Private from the Nigerian Army in 1957 he was yet to receive his pension, NAN reports.<\/p>\n

\u201cI joined the Royal West African Frontier Force in 1942 in Markurdi, Benue State. Trained in Laguna and deployed to India during the World War II. I fought at Calacutta.<\/p>\n

\u201cI returned to Lagos in 1946 and was of the 4 Brigade Guard Group until I was discharged in that same year.<\/p>\n

\u201dI rejoined the Nigerian Army in 1950 in Zaria and was finally discharged in 1957 as a private soldier.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m currently a farmer in Ibejukolo Omala Local Government Area in Kogi State.<\/p>\n

\u201cI have not being paid my pension since I was discharged and I\u2019m appealing to the federal government to look into the matter so I can get my pension,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Oduku thanked the Nigerian Army for the award.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A 104-year-old World War ll veteran of the Nigerian Army, Adamo Aduku on Saturday urged the President Muhammadu Buhari-led Government to pay his pension. Aduku was one of those conferred with the Chief of Army Staff World War II Veteran Award at the 2019 Army Day Celebration in Lagos. While speaking to journalists at the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":133461,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1,3],"tags":[41,12668],"class_list":["post-133460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-more","category-news","tag-buhari","tag-world-war"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=133460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133460\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/133461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=133460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=133460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=133460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}