{"id":68178,"date":"2025-06-16T09:31:12","date_gmt":"2025-06-16T09:31:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=68178"},"modified":"2025-06-16T09:31:12","modified_gmt":"2025-06-16T09:31:12","slug":"northern-can-mourns-death-of-plateau-chairman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/06\/16\/northern-can-mourns-death-of-plateau-chairman\/","title":{"rendered":"Northern CAN Mourns Death of Plateau Chairman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Huldah Shado<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) has announced the passing of Rev. Fr. Dr. Polycarp Lubo, Chairman of CAN in Plateau State and Treasurer of Northern CAN.<\/p>\n<p>Fr. Lubo died on Sunday after a brief illness following injuries sustained in an accident.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement signed by Rev. Dr. Joseph Hayab, Chairman of Northern CAN, the late priest was described as a courageous and committed servant of God who championed truth, justice, and peace.<\/p>\n<p>His strong advocacy for the vulnerable and for peaceful coexistence in Plateau State earned him widespread admiration.<\/p>\n<p>As Parish Priest of St. William&#8217;s Catholic Church, Zawan, Fr. Lubo was known for his humility, warmth, and dedication to interfaith collaboration.<\/p>\n<p>He worked closely with other religious leaders to promote immunization and support Nigeria\u2019s fight against polio.<\/p>\n<p>His role as Northern CAN Treasurer brought financial discipline and administrative structure to the association.<\/p>\n<p>CAN extended heartfelt condolences to the Catholic Archdiocese of Jos, Plateau State CAN, his parishioners, and the wider Christian community.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Huldah Shado The Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) has announced the passing of Rev. Fr. Dr. Polycarp Lubo, Chairman of CAN in Plateau State and Treasurer of Northern CAN. Fr. Lubo died on Sunday after a brief illness following injuries sustained in an accident. In a statement signed by Rev. Dr. Joseph Hayab, Chairman [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":68179,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68178","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\/68178","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=68178"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68180,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68178\/revisions\/68180"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}