{"id":62819,"date":"2025-03-15T20:07:41","date_gmt":"2025-03-15T20:07:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=62819"},"modified":"2025-03-15T20:07:41","modified_gmt":"2025-03-15T20:07:41","slug":"dss-shuts-ibb-golf-club-amid-leadership-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/03\/15\/dss-shuts-ibb-golf-club-amid-leadership-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"DSS Shuts IBB Golf Club Amid Leadership Crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Emmanuel Ogbodo<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Department of State Services has sealed the IBB International Golf and Country Club in Abuja following an internal leadership dispute that has rocked the prestigious facility.<\/p>\n<p>The closure on Saturday reportedly aimed to disrupt an Extraordinary General Meeting scheduled for three o&#8217;clock in the afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>Sources claim that influential members orchestrated the intervention, but it remains unclear who invited the security operatives.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement to members, the club captain, Ibrahim Alhassan Babayo, described the development as an unprecedented incident in the club\u2019s history.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor the first time, we are facing an unexpected and unfortunate situation,\u201d Babayo said.<\/p>\n<p>He accused a small group with vested interests of trying to undermine the meeting but assured members that due process would be followed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe urge members to remain calm. All necessary legal steps will be taken to ensure the Board of Trustees vacancies are properly filled,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Babayo pledged to keep members updated as events unfold.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Emmanuel Ogbodo The Department of State Services has sealed the IBB International Golf and Country Club in Abuja following an internal leadership dispute that has rocked the prestigious facility. The closure on Saturday reportedly aimed to disrupt an Extraordinary General Meeting scheduled for three o&#8217;clock in the afternoon. Sources claim that influential members orchestrated [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":62820,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-62819","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\/62819","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=62819"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62819\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62821,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62819\/revisions\/62821"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}