{"id":35307,"date":"2021-08-27T20:28:37","date_gmt":"2021-08-27T19:28:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=35307"},"modified":"2021-08-27T20:28:37","modified_gmt":"2021-08-27T19:28:37","slug":"a-week-after-ncpf-loses-another-member","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=35307","title":{"rendered":"A week after, NCPF loses another member"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Another member of the North Central Peoples&#8217; Forum, (NCPF) has died, a week after one, former Deputy Senate President, Ibrahim Mantu, passed.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In a statement, head of the NCPF sub-committee on Publicity, Dr. Tunde Olusunle, wrote: &#8220;We have just received the sad news of the demise of one of our respected elders and leaders of the North Central Peoples&#8217; Forum, (NCPF), Professor David Iyornongu Ker, OON, former Vice Chancellor of Benue State University, (BSU) and Veritas University, respectively.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;He was on the NCPF delegation which paid a condolence visit to the family of the late Senator Ibrahim Nasir Mantu, CFR, last week, and was also on the team which visited the Plateau State Governor, Simon Lalong, a fortnight ago.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Prof Ker marked his 70th birthday June 6, 2021. He was a seasoned professor of English who taught in several universities and Chairman of the federal government visitation panel to the Federal University of Technology, Yola.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;May his gentle soul rest in peace.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;He will be sorely missed.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another member of the North Central Peoples&#8217; Forum, (NCPF) has died, a week after one, former Deputy Senate President, Ibrahim Mantu, passed. In a statement, head of the NCPF sub-committee on Publicity, Dr. Tunde Olusunle, wrote: &#8220;We have just received the sad news of the demise of one of our respected elders and leaders of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":35308,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5781],"tags":[3834,3796,2289],"class_list":["post-35307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-obituary","tag-ker","tag-mantu","tag-ncpf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35307","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=35307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35307\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}