{"id":74735,"date":"2025-09-01T15:10:45","date_gmt":"2025-09-01T15:10:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=74735"},"modified":"2025-09-01T15:10:45","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T15:10:45","slug":"fct-minister-mourns-death-of-pioneer-head-civil-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/09\/01\/fct-minister-mourns-death-of-pioneer-head-civil-service\/","title":{"rendered":"FCT Minister Mourns Death of Pioneer Head, Civil Service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Sarah Sam Adda<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, has expressed deep sorrow over the passing of Mrs Grace Adayilo, the pioneer Head of the Civil Service of the FCT.<\/p>\n<p>Adayilo, who made history as the first female to hold the top civil service position in the territory, died in the early hours of Monday, September 1, 2025.<\/p>\n<p>President Bola Tinubu had appointed her as the FCT Head of Service on October 6, 2024. Before the appointment, she served as Permanent Secretary of the Agriculture and Rural Development Secretariat.<\/p>\n<p>Reacting to the development in Abuja on Monday, Wike described her passing as \u201csad and unfortunate,\u201d noting her contributions to public service in the capital.<\/p>\n<p>Further details surrounding her death are\u00a0still\u00a0expected.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Sarah Sam Adda &nbsp; The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, has expressed deep sorrow over the passing of Mrs Grace Adayilo, the pioneer Head of the Civil Service of the FCT. Adayilo, who made history as the first female to hold the top civil service position in the territory, died [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":74737,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74735","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\/74735","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=74735"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74735\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74738,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74735\/revisions\/74738"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}