{"id":58104,"date":"2024-12-16T16:49:27","date_gmt":"2024-12-16T16:49:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=58104"},"modified":"2024-12-16T16:49:27","modified_gmt":"2024-12-16T16:49:27","slug":"fg-renames-uniabuja-after-yakubu-gowon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2024\/12\/16\/fg-renames-uniabuja-after-yakubu-gowon\/","title":{"rendered":"FG Renames UniAbuja after Yakubu Gowon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>By Patrick Idowu<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Federal Government has approved the renaming of the University of Abuja (UniAbuja), to Yakubu Gowon University in honor of Nigeria&#8217;s Former Head of State, General Yakubu Gowon (rtd), who recently celebrated his 90th birthday.<\/p>\n<p>Minister of Information, Mohammed Idris, announced the decision on Monday during a briefing with State House correspondents after the Federal Executive Council (FEC), meeting, presided over by President Bola Tinubu.<\/p>\n<p>Idris disclosed that the proposal for the renaming will be forwarded to the National Assembly for formal approval.<br \/>\nThe move is part of efforts to recognize and celebrate General Gowon\u2019s contributions to Nigeria&#8217;s unity and development.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Patrick Idowu The Federal Government has approved the renaming of the University of Abuja (UniAbuja), to Yakubu Gowon University in honor of Nigeria&#8217;s Former Head of State, General Yakubu Gowon (rtd), who recently celebrated his 90th birthday. Minister of Information, Mohammed Idris, announced the decision on Monday during a briefing with State House correspondents [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":58105,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[59,1673,1688],"class_list":["post-58104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-featured","tag-uni-abuja","tag-yakubu-gowon"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58104","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\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58104"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58106,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58104\/revisions\/58106"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}