{"id":383372,"date":"2021-08-12T20:50:50","date_gmt":"2021-08-12T19:50:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=383372"},"modified":"2021-08-12T20:51:08","modified_gmt":"2021-08-12T19:51:08","slug":"breaking-widow-of-former-president-shehu-shagari-hadiza-dies-from-covid-19-complications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=383372","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING: Widow Of Former President Shehu Shagari, Hadiza Dies From COVID-19 Complications"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Hajiya Hadiza Shagari, wife of the late President Shehu Shagari is dead.<br \/>\n<span class=\"container container-pod container-pod-short\"><span class=\"adunit-parent hide block-module block-module-ad block-module-ad-300x250\"><span class=\"block-module-image-wrapper\"><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The widow died at 80 from COVID-19 complications, SaharaReporters learnt on Thursday.<br \/>\n<span class=\"ds-1col file file-image file-image-jpeg view-mode-embedded centered clearfix block-story-object block-story-object-resource block-story-object-resource-image\"><br \/>\n<span class=\"block-story-object-asset\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"media-element file-embedded\" typeof=\"foaf:Image\" src=\"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/storage\/2021\/08\/BREAKING-Widow-Of-Former-President-Shehu-Shagari-Hadiza-Dies-From.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/span><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p>A statement signed on behalf of the family by the Sarkin Marafan Shagari, Muhammad Bala Shagari (retd Capt.), announced Hadiza&#8217;s demise on Thursday. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We regret to announce the demise of our beloved mother, Hajiya Hadiza Shehu Shagari, the wife of H.E late President Shehu Usman Aliyu Shagari, GCFR (Turakin Sokoto).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe lost her in the early hours of today, 12th August 2021, at about 3:00 am, after battling Covid-19 at the Gwagwalada Isolation Center in Abuja.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHajiya Hadiza Shehu Shagari was 80 years old. Her Jana\u2019iza (Funeral Prayer) will take place today, at 4:00pm, immediately after Asr prayer, at the National Mosque, Abuja,&#8221; the statement read. <\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong><em>(SaharaReporters)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hajiya Hadiza Shagari, wife of the late President Shehu Shagari is dead. The widow died at 80 from COVID-19 complications, SaharaReporters learnt on Thursday. A statement signed on behalf of the family by the Sarkin Marafan Shagari, Muhammad Bala Shagari (retd Capt.), announced Hadiza&#8217;s demise on Thursday. &#8220;We regret to announce the demise of our [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":383373,"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":[14173,1206],"class_list":["post-383372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-more","tag-coronavirus","tag-shehu-shagari"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383372","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=383372"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383372\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/383373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=383372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=383372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=383372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}