{"id":81291,"date":"2026-01-08T10:58:40","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T10:58:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=81291"},"modified":"2026-01-08T10:58:40","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T10:58:40","slug":"chimamanda-adichie-mourns-death-of-son","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2026\/01\/08\/chimamanda-adichie-mourns-death-of-son\/","title":{"rendered":"Chimamanda Adichie Mourns Death of Son"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Adenike Lawal<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Renowned Nigerian writer, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, and her husband, Dr Ivara Esege, are mourning the death of one of their twin sons, Nkanu Nnamdi.<br \/>\nA family statement issued on Thursday said the 21-month-old toddler died on Wednesday, January 7, 2026, after a brief illness.<br \/>\nDescribing the loss as devastating, the family appealed for privacy, prayers and understanding as they grieve, adding that no further comments would be made during the period of mourning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Adenike Lawal Renowned Nigerian writer, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, and her husband, Dr Ivara Esege, are mourning the death of one of their twin sons, Nkanu Nnamdi. A family statement issued on Thursday said the 21-month-old toddler died on Wednesday, January 7, 2026, after a brief illness. Describing the loss as devastating, the family appealed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":81292,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81291","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\/81291","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=81291"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81291\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81293,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81291\/revisions\/81293"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}