{"id":71390,"date":"2025-07-24T14:21:20","date_gmt":"2025-07-24T14:21:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=71390"},"modified":"2025-07-24T14:21:20","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T14:21:20","slug":"president-tinubu-mourns-intellectual-giant-prof-jonah-elaigwu-at-77","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/07\/24\/president-tinubu-mourns-intellectual-giant-prof-jonah-elaigwu-at-77\/","title":{"rendered":"President Tinubu Mourns &#8220;Intellectual Giant&#8221; Prof. Jonah Elaigwu at 77"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Olokuta Rofiat<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"citation-36\">President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has expressed profound sorrow over the demise of <\/span><b><span class=\"citation-36\">Professor Jonah Elaigwu<\/span><\/b><span class=\"citation-36 citation-end-36\">, the distinguished Director-General of the Institute for Governance and Social Research (IGSR), who passed away on Tuesday, July 22, 2025, at the age of 77.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"citation-35 citation-end-35\">In a heartfelt condolence message issued on Thursday, President Tinubu eulogized the late Professor Elaigwu as an \u201cintellectual giant\u201d and a \u201cpatriot committed to national development and unity.\u201d The President highlighted Elaigwu&#8217;s significant and lasting impact on Nigeria\u2019s governance landscape through his extensive work on federalism and public policy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"citation-34 citation-end-34\">Professor Elaigwu, a renowned scholar of political science, was a highly respected voice on critical issues concerning federalism, conflict management, and national integration in Nigeria.<\/span> <span class=\"citation-33 citation-end-33\">His death is widely regarded as a substantial loss to both Nigeria\u2019s academic community and its public service sector.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"citation-32 citation-end-32\">President Tinubu offered prayers for the peaceful repose of Professor Elaigwu&#8217;s soul and extended his deepest condolences to his grieving family and associates during this time of immense loss.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Olokuta Rofiat President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has expressed profound sorrow over the demise of Professor Jonah Elaigwu, the distinguished Director-General of the Institute for Governance and Social Research (IGSR), who passed away on Tuesday, July 22, 2025, at the age of 77. In a heartfelt condolence message issued on Thursday, President Tinubu eulogized the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":71391,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71390","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\/71390","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=71390"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71390\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71392,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71390\/revisions\/71392"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}