{"id":13953,"date":"2018-12-19T12:08:06","date_gmt":"2018-12-19T12:08:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=13953"},"modified":"2018-12-19T12:08:06","modified_gmt":"2018-12-19T12:08:06","slug":"former-defence-chief-badeh-gunned-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=13953","title":{"rendered":"Former Defence Chief, Badeh, gunned down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Embattled former Chief of Defence Staff, Air Chief Marshal Alex Badeh, is dead. He was shot by unknown gunmen.<br \/>\nBadeh was being\u00a0prosecuted by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) for alleged N3.9 billion fraud\u00a0while in office.<br \/>\nNigerian Air Force spokesman, Air Commodore Ibikunle Daramola, confirmed the incident in tweets on Tuesday.<br \/>\nThey read: \u201cIt is with a heavy heart that I regretfully announce the unfortunate demise of former Chief of Defence Staff, Air Chief Marshal Alex Badeh, who died today, 18 Dec 18, from gunshot wounds sustained when his vehicle was attacked.\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cOn behalf of officers, airmen and airwomen of the Nigerian Air Force, the Chief of the Air Staff, Air Marshal Abubakar, commiserates with the family of the late former Chief of Defence Staff over this irreparable loss. We pray that the Almighty God grants his soul eternal rest.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Embattled former Chief of Defence Staff, Air Chief Marshal Alex Badeh, is dead. He was shot by unknown gunmen. Badeh was being\u00a0prosecuted by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) for alleged N3.9 billion fraud\u00a0while in office. Nigerian Air Force spokesman, Air Commodore Ibikunle Daramola, confirmed the incident in tweets on Tuesday. They read: \u201cIt [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":13954,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13953","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\/13953","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=13953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13953\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}