{"id":78483,"date":"2025-11-11T04:35:22","date_gmt":"2025-11-11T04:35:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=78483"},"modified":"2025-11-11T04:35:22","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T04:35:22","slug":"shehu-shagaris-widow-saratu-dies-at-89","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/11\/11\/shehu-shagaris-widow-saratu-dies-at-89\/","title":{"rendered":"Shehu Shagari\u2019s Widow, Saratu, Dies at 89"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Huldah Shado<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Hajiya Saratu Shagari, the last surviving wife of former Nigerian President Alhaji Shehu Usman Aliyu Shagari, has died at 89.<\/p>\n<p>Her death was confirmed on Monday by her son, Captain Mohammed Shagari (retd.), who said she passed away at 3:00 p.m. after a prolonged illness.<\/p>\n<p>He described his mother as \u201can embodiment of grace, humility, and quiet strength.\u201d Funeral arrangements will be announced later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Huldah Shado Hajiya Saratu Shagari, the last surviving wife of former Nigerian President Alhaji Shehu Usman Aliyu Shagari, has died at 89. Her death was confirmed on Monday by her son, Captain Mohammed Shagari (retd.), who said she passed away at 3:00 p.m. after a prolonged illness. He described his mother as \u201can embodiment [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":78484,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-78483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78483","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\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78483"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78483\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78485,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78483\/revisions\/78485"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}