{"id":163538,"date":"2019-10-28T09:01:06","date_gmt":"2019-10-28T08:01:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=163538"},"modified":"2019-10-28T09:02:37","modified_gmt":"2019-10-28T08:02:37","slug":"tafawa-balewas-wife-dies-at-85-thecable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=163538","title":{"rendered":"Tafawa Balewa&#8217;s wife dies at 85 &#8211; TheCable"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"box-sizing:border-box; margin:0px0px30px; padding:0px; border:0px; outline:0px; font-size:16px; vertical-align:baseline; background:transparent; word-break:break-word; line-height:1.65; color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:Poppins,sans-serif; font-style:normal; font-variant-ligatures:normal; font-variant-caps:normal; font-weight:400; letter-spacing:normal; orphans:2text-indent:0px; text-transform:none; white-space:normal; widows:2; word-spacing:0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width:0px; text-decoration-style:initial; text-decoration-color:initial; text-align:left;\"><strong style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; font-weight: 700;\">Jummai Abubakar, the last surviving wife of Tafawa Balewa, the late prime minister of Nigeria, is dead.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing:border-box; margin:0px0px30px; padding:0px; border:0px; outline:0px; font-size:16px; vertical-align:baseline; background:transparent; word-break:break-word; line-height:1.65; color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:Poppins,sans-serif; font-style:normal; font-variant-ligatures:normal; font-variant-caps:normal; font-weight:400; letter-spacing:normal; orphans:2text-indent:0px; text-transform:none; white-space:normal; widows:2; word-spacing:0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width:0px; text-decoration-style:initial; text-decoration-color:initial; text-align:left;\">Hajara Wanka, a grand daughter to the late prime minister, confirmed the death of Abubakar in a telephone interview with NAN on Sunday night.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing:border-box; margin:0px0px30px; padding:0px; border:0px; outline:0px; font-size:16px; vertical-align:baseline; background:transparent; word-break:break-word; line-height:1.65; color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:Poppins,sans-serif; font-style:normal; font-variant-ligatures:normal; font-variant-caps:normal; font-weight:400; letter-spacing:normal; orphans:2text-indent:0px; text-transform:none; white-space:normal; widows:2; word-spacing:0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width:0px; text-decoration-style:initial; text-decoration-color:initial; text-align:left;\">Wanka said the deceased, aged 85, died at 4pm on Sunday in Lagos, following a cardiac arrest, leaving behind eight children and many grandchildren.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing:border-box; margin:0px0px30px; padding:0px; border:0px; outline:0px; font-size:16px; vertical-align:baseline; background:transparent; word-break:break-word; line-height:1.65; color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:Poppins,sans-serif; font-style:normal; font-variant-ligatures:normal; font-variant-caps:normal; font-weight:400; letter-spacing:normal; orphans:2text-indent:0px; text-transform:none; white-space:normal; widows:2; word-spacing:0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width:0px; text-decoration-style:initial; text-decoration-color:initial; text-align:left;\">She said the deceased had returned from a two-week medical trip in India, but decided to stay a while in Lagos with her daughter, when the death occurred.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing:border-box; margin:0px0px30px; padding:0px; border:0px; outline:0px; font-size:16px; vertical-align:baseline; background:transparent; word-break:break-word; line-height:1.65; color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:Poppins,sans-serif; font-style:normal; font-variant-ligatures:normal; font-variant-caps:normal; font-weight:400; letter-spacing:normal; orphans:2text-indent:0px; text-transform:none; white-space:normal; widows:2; word-spacing:0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width:0px; text-decoration-style:initial; text-decoration-color:initial; text-align:left;\">She said her remains would be brought to Bauchi on Monday for burial.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jummai Abubakar, the last surviving wife of Tafawa Balewa, the late prime minister of Nigeria, is dead. Hajara Wanka, a grand daughter to the late prime minister, confirmed the death of Abubakar in a telephone interview with NAN on Sunday night. Wanka said the deceased, aged 85, died at 4pm on Sunday in Lagos, following [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":163537,"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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[216,96,9025],"class_list":["post-163538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-more","tag-abubakar-tafawa-balewa","tag-ahmadu-bello","tag-nnamdi-azikwe"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163538","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\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=163538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163538\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/163537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=163538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=163538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=163538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}