{"id":23871,"date":"2024-03-19T15:33:29","date_gmt":"2024-03-19T15:33:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=23871"},"modified":"2024-03-19T15:33:29","modified_gmt":"2024-03-19T15:33:29","slug":"oyo-senator-proposes-renaming-senate-committee-room-in-honor-of-late-olubadan-of-ibadan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2024\/03\/19\/oyo-senator-proposes-renaming-senate-committee-room-in-honor-of-late-olubadan-of-ibadan\/","title":{"rendered":"Oyo Senator Proposes Renaming Senate Committee Room in Honor of Late Olubadan of Ibadan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Senator Alli Sharafadeen Abiodun, representing Oyo South Senatorial District, has proposed naming one of the Senate Committee rooms after the late Olubadan of Ibadan, Oba Mahood Olalekan Balogun.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Making the proposal under Order 41 of the Senate Rules, Senator Abiodun formally announced the passing of the 42nd Olubadan of Ibadan and sought the Chamber&#8217;s approval for the renaming.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>However, the proposal elicited laughter from fellow Senators, who had just been discussing a motion about the killing of 16 soldiers. While the suggestion to rename the Committee room was met with amusement, it marks a unique gesture in the history of democracy.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Despite the laughter, a one-minute silence was observed in honor of the late monarch, who passed away on March 14, 2024, after a two-year reign as the Olubadan of Ibadan land.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senator Alli Sharafadeen Abiodun, representing Oyo South Senatorial District, has proposed naming one of the Senate Committee rooms after the late Olubadan of Ibadan, Oba Mahood Olalekan Balogun. &nbsp; Making the proposal under Order 41 of the Senate Rules, Senator Abiodun formally announced the passing of the 42nd Olubadan of Ibadan and sought the Chamber&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":23873,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23871","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=23871"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23871\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23874,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23871\/revisions\/23874"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}