{"id":59272,"date":"2025-01-09T10:21:08","date_gmt":"2025-01-09T10:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=59272"},"modified":"2025-01-09T10:21:08","modified_gmt":"2025-01-09T10:21:08","slug":"commissioner-dies-shortly-after-exco-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/01\/09\/commissioner-dies-shortly-after-exco-meeting\/","title":{"rendered":"Commissioner Dies Shortly After Exco Meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Patrick Idowu <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Robert Ewa, Cross River State\u2019s Commissioner for Tourism, Arts, and Culture, has passed away, just hours after attending the state\u2019s executive council meeting.<\/p>\n<p>Nsa Gill, Chief Press Secretary to Governor Bassey Otu, confirmed the tragic news on Thursday, revealing that Ewa died at a medical facility in Calabar.<\/p>\n<p>According to Gill, the commissioner was actively engaged in Wednesday\u2019s executive council meeting, contributing to discussions before excusing himself.<\/p>\n<p>Unknown to his colleagues, he had left for medical attention.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA few minutes after making his contributions, he stepped out, and his driver took him to a clinic,\u201d Gill stated, adding that \u201cIt was only later that we received the shocking news of his passing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Governor Otu was reportedly devastated by the sudden loss, with an official statement expected to follow.<\/p>\n<p>Before his death, Ewa held key positions in the state, including Secretary and later Chairman of Boki LGA, Special Adviser on Community Relations, and Secretary of the Anti-Deforestation Task Force.<\/p>\n<p>His passing leaves a void in Cross River\u2019s leadership, marking a solemn moment for the state.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Patrick Idowu Robert Ewa, Cross River State\u2019s Commissioner for Tourism, Arts, and Culture, has passed away, just hours after attending the state\u2019s executive council meeting. Nsa Gill, Chief Press Secretary to Governor Bassey Otu, confirmed the tragic news on Thursday, revealing that Ewa died at a medical facility in Calabar. According to Gill, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":59274,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59272","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\/59272","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\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59272"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59275,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59272\/revisions\/59275"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}