{"id":61457,"date":"2025-02-18T08:41:27","date_gmt":"2025-02-18T08:41:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=61457"},"modified":"2025-02-18T08:41:27","modified_gmt":"2025-02-18T08:41:27","slug":"nigerian-elder-statesman-edwin-clark-dies-at-97","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/02\/18\/nigerian-elder-statesman-edwin-clark-dies-at-97\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigerian Elder Statesman Edwin Clark Dies at 97"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Njoku Chijioke<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Edwin Kiagbodo Clark, a renowned Nigerian elder statesman, politician, and former Minister of Information, has passed away at the age of 97.<\/p>\n<p>His family confirmed he died peacefully at his Abuja residence.<\/p>\n<p>Born on May 25, 1927, in Kiagbodo, Burutu Local Government Area of Delta State, Clark served in various capacities, including Minister of Information and Commissioner for Education in the old Midwest State.<\/p>\n<p>He was also instrumental in shaping Nigeria\u2019s political landscape, notably serving as a senator during the Second Republic.<\/p>\n<p>A staunch advocate for national unity, Clark championed the development and empowerment of the Niger Delta region throughout his career.<\/p>\n<p>Tributes have poured in from across the country, with the President describing his passing as \u201ca great loss to our nation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Funeral arrangements for the late elder statesman will be announced by his family in due course.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Njoku Chijioke Edwin Kiagbodo Clark, a renowned Nigerian elder statesman, politician, and former Minister of Information, has passed away at the age of 97. His family confirmed he died peacefully at his Abuja residence. Born on May 25, 1927, in Kiagbodo, Burutu Local Government Area of Delta State, Clark served in various capacities, including [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":61458,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-61457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61457","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=61457"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61457\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61459,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61457\/revisions\/61459"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}