{"id":55047,"date":"2024-11-07T10:24:14","date_gmt":"2024-11-07T10:24:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=55047"},"modified":"2024-11-07T11:24:22","modified_gmt":"2024-11-07T11:24:22","slug":"wear-black-bands-morun-lagbaja-igp-orders-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2024\/11\/07\/wear-black-bands-morun-lagbaja-igp-orders-police\/","title":{"rendered":"Wear Black Bands, Mourn Lagbaja, IGP Orders Police"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Inspector-General of Police, Kayode Egbetokun, has directed that officers and men of the Nigeria Police Force wear black bands for a seven-day mourning period in memory of the late Chief of Army Staff, Lt. Gen. Taoreed Lagbaja.<\/p>\n<p>The police chief issued the decision in a statement made on Thursday by the Force Public Relations Officer, Muyiwa Adejobi.<\/p>\n<p>Adejobi stated that the directive is intended to honour Lagbaja, who shown valor, dedication, and enthusiasm in the fight against insurgency in the country during his lifetime.<\/p>\n<p>The statement reads, \u201cFollowing the demise of the late Chief of Army Staff, Lt. Gen. Taoreed Lagbaja, the Inspector-General of Police, IGP Kayode Adeolu Egbetokun, Ph.D., NPM, has ordered officers and men of the Nigeria Police Force to wear black band throughout the 7 day mourning period.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis directive is to pay tribute and honour the late General who has shown gallantry, dedication, and passion for fighting violent crimes and insurgency in Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He was a great leader who deserves to be honoured by all means. May the soul of the late COAS rest in peace,\u201d he prayed<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Inspector-General of Police, Kayode Egbetokun, has directed that officers and men of the Nigeria Police Force wear black bands for a seven-day mourning period in memory of the late Chief of Army Staff, Lt. Gen. Taoreed Lagbaja. The police chief issued the decision in a statement made on Thursday by the Force Public Relations [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":50807,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[182],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-defence-and-security"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55047","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=55047"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55047\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55077,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55047\/revisions\/55077"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}