{"id":2127,"date":"2023-09-17T18:20:38","date_gmt":"2023-09-17T18:20:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=2127"},"modified":"2023-09-17T18:20:38","modified_gmt":"2023-09-17T18:20:38","slug":"teni-shares-heart-wrenching-account-of-her-fathers-assassination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2023\/09\/17\/teni-shares-heart-wrenching-account-of-her-fathers-assassination\/","title":{"rendered":"Teni Shares Heart-Wrenching Account of Her Father&#8217;s Assassination"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>Adeyemi Abdulkareem<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Teniola Apata, widely recognized as Teni, a prominent Nigerian singer, has opened up about the harrowing experience of witnessing her father&#8217;s assassination, an event that left an indelible mark on her life.<\/p>\n<p>Her father, the late Simeon Apata, was a retired Nigerian Army Brigadier-General, and the tragic assassination occurred in 1995.<\/p>\n<p>In a candid conversation as a guest on the latest episode of the &#8220;Tea With Tay&#8221; podcast, hosted by actor Temisan Emmanuel Ahwieh, popularly known as Taymesan, Teni shared the deeply traumatic memories of the incident that unfolded when she was just a two-year-old child, within the confines of their family&#8217;s living room.<\/p>\n<p>Describing her father, Teni spoke of him as a strict disciplinarian and a man of multiple roles, being both a soldier and the proprietor of Apata Memorial High School. He was also renowned for his philanthropic endeavors.<\/p>\n<p>The singer acknowledged the profound impact of her father&#8217;s tragic demise at such a tender age, expressing how it robbed her of the opportunity to have a father figure in her life. She revealed that the trauma of witnessing his assassination had left her with enduring trust issues, as the gunmen purposefully invaded their home to carry out the heinous act.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the painful memories, Teni affirmed that her father would forever be her hero, a testament to the enduring love and respect she holds for the memory of the late Brigadier-General Simeon Apata.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adeyemi Abdulkareem &nbsp; Teniola Apata, widely recognized as Teni, a prominent Nigerian singer, has opened up about the harrowing experience of witnessing her father&#8217;s assassination, an event that left an indelible mark on her life. Her father, the late Simeon Apata, was a retired Nigerian Army Brigadier-General, and the tragic assassination occurred in 1995. In [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":2128,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[179,172],"tags":[254],"class_list":["post-2127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","category-news","tag-teni"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2127"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2127\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2134,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2127\/revisions\/2134"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}