{"id":12898,"date":"2023-03-26T06:58:51","date_gmt":"2023-03-26T06:58:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=12898"},"modified":"2023-03-26T06:58:51","modified_gmt":"2023-03-26T06:58:51","slug":"ex-cgs-oladipo-diya-dies-at-79","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=12898","title":{"rendered":"Ex-CGS Oladipo Diya Dies At 79"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">Lt. General Oladipo Diya, former Chief of General Staff under the late Head\u00a0 of State, General Sani Abacha, is dead.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">His death was announced in a statement by his son, Prince Oyesinmilola Diya, on Sunday morning.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">It read, \u201cOn behalf of the entire Diya family home and abroad; we announce the passing on to glory of our dear husband, father, grandfather, brother, Lt-General Donaldson Oladipo Oyeyinka Diya (rtd) GCON, LLB, BL, PSC, FSS, mni.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cOur dear Daddy passed onto glory in the early hours of 26th March 2023. Please keep us in your prayers as we mourn his demise in this period. Further announcements will be made public in due course.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The former Chief of General Staff was born on April 3, 1944 at Odogbolu in Ogun State.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Diya joined the\u00a0Nigerian Defence Academy,\u00a0Kaduna\u00a0and fought during the\u00a0Nigerian Civil War.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">He was appointed Chief of General Staff in 1993 and Vice Chairman of the Provisional Ruling Council in 1994.\u00a0As\u00a0Chief of the General Staff, he was second in command and the de facto vice president\u00a0of\u00a0Nigeria under Abacha from 1994.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Diya lost his wife, Folashade, in May of 2020.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lt. General Oladipo Diya, former Chief of General Staff under the late Head  of State, General Sani Abacha, is dead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12899,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[6722,6723],"class_list":["post-12898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-ex-cgs","tag-oladipo-diya"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12898"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12898"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12898\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12900,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12898\/revisions\/12900"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}