{"id":67840,"date":"2025-06-11T20:49:04","date_gmt":"2025-06-11T20:49:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=67840"},"modified":"2025-06-11T20:49:04","modified_gmt":"2025-06-11T20:49:04","slug":"renowned-tyre-dealer-lamidi-ajadi-dies-at-89","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/06\/11\/renowned-tyre-dealer-lamidi-ajadi-dies-at-89\/","title":{"rendered":"Renowned Tyre Dealer Lamidi Ajadi Dies at 89"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Huldah Shado<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Lamidi Ajadi, a prominent Ibadan businessman and founder of Lamidi Ajadi and Sons Nigeria Limited, has died at the age of 89 after a brief illness.<\/p>\n<p>Ajadi, widely respected in the automotive industry, built one of the most reputable tyre dealership companies in the region, supplying automotive components to individuals, corporate clients, government agencies, and international institutions.<\/p>\n<p>His death was confirmed by family sources, who described him as a pillar of strength, discipline, and inspiration.<\/p>\n<p>He will be laid to rest on Wednesday, June 12, 2025, in accordance with Islamic rites.<\/p>\n<p>Oyo State Governor, Seyi Makinde, paid tribute to Ajadi, describing him as a thoroughbred Ibadan man whose legacy includes immense contributions to the socio-economic development of the city and the state at large.<\/p>\n<p>Lamidi Ajadi &amp; Sons Nigeria Limited, popularly known as \u201cTyre House,\u201d has operated for over six decades.<\/p>\n<p>The company\u2019s headquarters is located opposite Baba Onilu, Iwo Road Roundabout, Ibadan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Huldah Shado Lamidi Ajadi, a prominent Ibadan businessman and founder of Lamidi Ajadi and Sons Nigeria Limited, has died at the age of 89 after a brief illness. Ajadi, widely respected in the automotive industry, built one of the most reputable tyre dealership companies in the region, supplying automotive components to individuals, corporate clients, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":67841,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67840","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\/67840","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\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67840"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67840\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67842,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67840\/revisions\/67842"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}