{"id":13155,"date":"2023-04-09T07:11:39","date_gmt":"2023-04-09T07:11:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=13155"},"modified":"2023-04-09T07:11:39","modified_gmt":"2023-04-09T07:11:39","slug":"former-minister-of-justice-bola-ajibola-dies-at-89","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=13155","title":{"rendered":"Former Minister Of Justice, Bola Ajibola, Dies At 89"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">A former Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Prince Bola Ajibola, is dead.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The development was confirmed on Sunday by the first son of the late eminent jurist, Maruf Adesegun Ajibola (SAN).<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Maruf in a message on Sunday said his father passed on at 89 in the early hours of Sunday in his Abeokuta home in the Ogun State capital.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The message reads in part: \u201cWith very deep heart and Gratitude to Almighty Allah: Our Dad Prince Bola Ajibola departed this world over the midnight.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cMay Almighty Allah bless him with Aljanah firdaus.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Prince Ajibola was a Judge at the International Court of Justice between 1991 and 1994.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">He was the founder of the foremost faith-based private citadel, Crescent University, Abeokuta.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">He was once the President of the Nigerian Bar Association from 1984 to 1985.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Late Ajibola was the AGF during junta of former Military President Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A former Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Prince Bola Ajibola, is dead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13156,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[550,6829],"class_list":["post-13155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-bola-ajibola","tag-former-minister-of-justice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13155"}],"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=13155"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13157,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13155\/revisions\/13157"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}