{"id":11310,"date":"2018-08-09T15:11:04","date_gmt":"2018-08-09T15:11:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=11310"},"modified":"2018-08-09T15:11:04","modified_gmt":"2018-08-09T15:11:04","slug":"breaking-bayelsa-governor-loses-mother","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=11310","title":{"rendered":"Breaking: Bayelsa Governor loses mother"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Bayelsa State Governor, Honourable Henry Seriake Dickson has confirmed the passing on of his beloved mother,\u00a0 Mrs Gold Coast Dickson.\u00a0 She was 72 years old!<\/div>\n
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The Governor in a statement signed by his Chief Press Secretary,\u00a0 Francis Ottah Agbo, \u00a0said the late GoldCoast died of cancer early hours of today at the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Centre,\u00a0\u00a0Houston,\u00a0 Texas<\/a>\u00a0where she had been receiving treatment. Governor Dickson expressed appreciation to the Centre especially the team of medical professionals who did their best to save the life of his mother.<\/div>\n
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Dickson\u00a0 also thanked family members, friends, political associates and Nigerians generally for their prayers and support in the most trying times for the Dickson family.<\/div>\n
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Until her last breathe,\u00a0 she was a quintessential mother, devout Christian and community leader who devoted her lifetime to the service of God and humanity.<\/div>\n
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Condolence registers have been opened in Government House, Yenagoa, the Governor’s residences in Opolo,\u00a0 Yenagoa and Toru-Orua Community in Sagbama LGA, Bayelsa State Liaison Office (IZON Warri) in Abuja and Governor’s Lodge,\u00a0 Asokoro, Abuja. Funeral details\u00a0 will be announced by the family at a later date!<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bayelsa State Governor, Honourable Henry Seriake Dickson has confirmed the passing on of his beloved mother,\u00a0 Mrs Gold Coast Dickson.\u00a0 She was 72 years old! The Governor in a statement signed by his Chief Press Secretary,\u00a0 Francis Ottah Agbo, \u00a0said the late GoldCoast died of cancer early hours of today at the University of Texas […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":11074,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11310\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}