{"id":76379,"date":"2025-10-09T14:26:06","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T14:26:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=76379"},"modified":"2025-10-09T14:26:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T14:26:06","slug":"veteran-broadcaster-christopher-kolade-dies-at-92","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/10\/09\/veteran-broadcaster-christopher-kolade-dies-at-92\/","title":{"rendered":"Veteran Broadcaster Christopher Kolade Dies at 92"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Omoniyi David<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Renowned broadcaster and elder statesman, Dr. Christopher Kolade, has died at the age of 92.<\/p>\n<p>His family announced his passing in a statement on Thursday, saying he died peacefully on Wednesday, October 8, 2025.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are grateful for his remarkable life of faith and service and for God\u2019s abundant blessings,\u201d the family stated.<\/p>\n<p>Born on December 28, 1932, Dr. Kolade had a distinguished career as a broadcaster, diplomat, academic, and a respected advocate of integrity and corporate governance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Omoniyi David &nbsp; Renowned broadcaster and elder statesman, Dr. Christopher Kolade, has died at the age of 92. His family announced his passing in a statement on Thursday, saying he died peacefully on Wednesday, October 8, 2025. \u201cWe are grateful for his remarkable life of faith and service and for God\u2019s abundant blessings,\u201d the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":76380,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[179,172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76379","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=76379"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76379\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76381,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76379\/revisions\/76381"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}