{"id":80829,"date":"2025-12-24T11:18:33","date_gmt":"2025-12-24T11:18:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=80829"},"modified":"2025-12-24T11:18:33","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T11:18:33","slug":"nysc-mourns-former-director-general-sofoluwe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/12\/24\/nysc-mourns-former-director-general-sofoluwe\/","title":{"rendered":"NYSC Mourns Former Director-General Sofoluwe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Huldah Shado<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) has expressed grief over the death of its 7th Director-General, Brigadier General Soyemi Ayodele Sofoluwe (Rtd.).<\/p>\n<p>The current Director-General, Brigadier General Olakunle Nafiu, led a condolence visit to the Sofoluwe family in Lagos on Tuesday, where he described the late former DG as a distinguished officer and administrator who made lasting contributions to the growth and stability of the Scheme.<\/p>\n<p>Nafiu said Sofoluwe\u2019s leadership and commitment to national service and unity strengthened the NYSC, adding that his death is a great loss to the Scheme and the nation. He prayed for the repose of his soul and comfort for the family.<\/p>\n<p>He also assured Sofoluwe\u2019s widow, Colonel Kehinde Sofoluwe (Rtd.), of the NYSC\u2019s support as funeral preparations begin.<\/p>\n<p>Fondly known as \u201cOga Show,\u201d Sofoluwe was admired for his warm, compassionate and witty disposition. He is survived by his wife, children and grandchildren.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Huldah Shado The National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) has expressed grief over the death of its 7th Director-General, Brigadier General Soyemi Ayodele Sofoluwe (Rtd.). The current Director-General, Brigadier General Olakunle Nafiu, led a condolence visit to the Sofoluwe family in Lagos on Tuesday, where he described the late former DG as a distinguished officer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":80831,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-80829","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\/80829","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=80829"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80829\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80832,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80829\/revisions\/80832"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}