{"id":46118,"date":"2024-08-29T09:30:37","date_gmt":"2024-08-29T09:30:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=46118"},"modified":"2024-08-29T09:30:37","modified_gmt":"2024-08-29T09:30:37","slug":"just-in-ayilara-akwa-ibom-police-commissioner-passes-away-in-lagos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2024\/08\/29\/just-in-ayilara-akwa-ibom-police-commissioner-passes-away-in-lagos\/","title":{"rendered":"JUST IN: Ayilara, Akwa Ibom Police Commissioner Passes Away in Lagos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Police Commissioner of Akwa Ibom State, Waheed Ayilara, is dead.<\/p>\n<p>It was gathered that Ayilara, died in the early hours of Thursday at the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital, Ikeja.<\/p>\n<p>A close Family source disclosed that he underwent prostate cancer surgery on Wednesday before he died hours later.<\/p>\n<p>The source said: \u201cWe are very sad to inform you that our friend, brother, and family, the Commissioner of Police for Akwa Ibom State, Waheed Ayilara, is dead.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In November 2023, as a DCP, Ayilara was unveiled as the acting Commissioner of Police in Lagos.<br \/>\nAyilara, a former Deputy Commissioner of Police in charge of the State Criminal Investigation Department, took over from AIG Idowu Owohunwa.<\/p>\n<p>The Inspector General of Police, Kayode Egbetokun, deployed Ayilara to head Akwa Ibom State Command in February 2024.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Police Commissioner of Akwa Ibom State, Waheed Ayilara, is dead. It was gathered that Ayilara, died in the early hours of Thursday at the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital, Ikeja. A close Family source disclosed that he underwent prostate cancer surgery on Wednesday before he died hours later. The source said: \u201cWe are very [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":46131,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[820],"class_list":["post-46118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-akwa-ibom-police"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46118","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\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46118"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46134,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46118\/revisions\/46134"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}