{"id":257575,"date":"2020-09-13T08:58:41","date_gmt":"2020-09-13T07:58:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=257575"},"modified":"2020-09-13T09:05:19","modified_gmt":"2020-09-13T08:05:19","slug":"buhari-reacts-as-gowons-presidential-air-fleet-pilot-thahal-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=257575","title":{"rendered":"Buhari reacts as Gowon\u2019s presidential air fleet pilot, Thahal dies"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">President Muhammadu Buhari has sympathized the family of former Managing Director of Nigeria Airways, Captain Paul Mamman Thahal over the death of the pilot.<\/p>\n<p>Buhari, in a statement by his Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Malam Garba Shehu, in Abuja on Saturday, consoled with former Head of State, Yakubu Gowon over the loss of a good friend, confidant and prayer partner.<\/p>\n<p>He sympathized with Thahal\u2019s wife, Mrs Atsa Thahal and daughter, Dr Adzira Thahal as well as all former members of staff of the Nigeria Airways and the entire aviation industry.<\/p>\n<p>The president believes that the resonating testimonies from the life of the deceased had proved him to be a man dedicated to promoting the kingdom of God on earth.<\/p>\n<p>He also lauded the deceased for committing himself to the virtues of practical Christianity like generosity, humility and selfless service.<\/p>\n<p>The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Late Thahal served meritoriously as Captain of Gen. Yakubu Gowon\u2019s Presidential Flight for nine years.<\/p>\n<p>He also supported the former Head of State in setting up the national spiritual platform, Nigeria Prays.<\/p>\n<p>The president prayed that God would remember his professional and spiritual investments in Nigeria, grant his soul eternal rest and comfort his family.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Muhammadu Buhari has sympathized the family of former Managing Director of Nigeria Airways, Captain Paul Mamman Thahal over the death of the pilot. Buhari, in a statement by his Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Malam Garba Shehu, in Abuja on Saturday, consoled with former Head of State, Yakubu Gowon over the loss [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":257576,"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":[3],"tags":[41,15591,1804],"class_list":["post-257575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-buhari","tag-thahal","tag-yakubu-gowon"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257575","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=257575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257575\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/257576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=257575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=257575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=257575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}