{"id":31788,"date":"2021-03-07T15:01:40","date_gmt":"2021-03-07T14:01:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=31788"},"modified":"2021-03-07T15:01:40","modified_gmt":"2021-03-07T14:01:40","slug":"supreme-court-justice-nwali-sylvester-ngwuta-dies-in-his-sleep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=31788","title":{"rendered":"Supreme Court Justice, Nwali Sylvester Ngwuta dies in his sleep"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By <strong>Yemi Oyeyemi<\/strong>, Abuja<br \/><br \/>Tragedy has hit the Supreme Court of Nigeria as one of its Justices, Sy\u013avester Nwali Ngwuta passed on this morning in Abuja.<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/images.jpeg-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-31796\"\/><figcaption>Justice Sylvester Ngwuta                     <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He was said to have passed away in his sleep at his official residence in Abuja at the age of almost seventy years.<br \/><br \/>Justice Ngwuta was said to be getting set for his retirement from the Supreme Court on 30th March, 2021 upon attainment of 70 years mandatory retirement age.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Yemi Oyeyemi, Abuja Tragedy has hit the Supreme Court of Nigeria as one of its Justices, Sy\u013avester Nwali Ngwuta passed on this morning in Abuja. He was said to have passed away in his sleep at his official residence in Abuja at the age of almost seventy years. Justice Ngwuta was said to be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":25024,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5781],"tags":[3024,3025,48],"class_list":["post-31788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-obituary","tag-ngwuta","tag-sleep","tag-supreme-court"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31788","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=31788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31788\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}