{"id":14171,"date":"2024-11-01T09:16:17","date_gmt":"2024-11-01T09:16:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.news.naijatraffic.ng\/?p=14171"},"modified":"2024-11-01T09:16:17","modified_gmt":"2024-11-01T09:16:17","slug":"former-senate-president-set-to-be-buried-after-three-years-in-uk-mortuary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.naijatraffic.ng\/news\/former-senate-president-set-to-be-buried-after-three-years-in-uk-mortuary\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Senate President set to be buried after three years in UK mortuary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former Nigerian Senate President, Dr. Joseph Wayas will be buried on November 30, 2024 after staying in UK mortuary after three years.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement issued by the Secretary of the Central Planning Committee, Dr. Dorn-Cklaimz Enamhe confirmed that the arrangements for the burial were ongoing.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Joseph Wayas served as Senate President from 1979 to 1983, before he died at the age of 80 in a London hospital on November 30, 2024.<\/p>\n<p>Cross River State Governor Bassey Otu and other supporters helped to bring his body to Nigeria in July 2024.<\/p>\n<p>Governor Otu expressed his commitment stating how he would make sure that all the Cross River natives who died abroad would be brought back for burial.<\/p>\n<p>The funeral will start with a ceremony at UJ Esuene Stadium in Calabar before he will be buried in his hometown of Bassang, Obanliku Local Government Area.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Nigerian Senate President, Dr. Joseph Wayas will be buried on November 30, 2024 after staying in UK mortuary after three years. In a statement issued by the Secretary of the Central Planning Committee, Dr. Dorn-Cklaimz Enamhe confirmed that the arrangements for the burial were ongoing. Dr. Joseph Wayas served as Senate President from 1979 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14174,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[884,883],"class_list":{"0":"post-14171","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-local","8":"tag-dr-joseph-wayas","9":"tag-former-nigerian-senate-president"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.naijatraffic.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.naijatraffic.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.naijatraffic.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.naijatraffic.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.naijatraffic.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.naijatraffic.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14171\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.naijatraffic.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.naijatraffic.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.naijatraffic.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.naijatraffic.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}