{"id":57201,"date":"2022-04-21T07:35:09","date_gmt":"2022-04-21T07:35:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=57201"},"modified":"2022-04-21T07:35:09","modified_gmt":"2022-04-21T07:35:09","slug":"president-buhari-mourns-victims-of-nigerian-air-force-plane-crash-in-kaduna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=57201","title":{"rendered":"President Buhari mourns victims of Nigerian Air Force plane crash in Kaduna"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Muhammadu Buhari mourns the tragic and unfortunate death of two officers in a Nigerian Air Force (NAF) plane crash in Kaduna.<\/p>\n<p>Reacting to the death of Flight Lieutenant Abubakar Alkali and Flight Lieutenant Elijah Haruna Karatu, the President said:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am shocked beyond words by the demise of these two promising young men who risked their lives in the service of the country.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There is no reward big enough to pay for the services of these young and dedicated professional airmen in the service of their country.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>While extending his sympathies to the Chief of Air Staff and the families of the deceased, President Buhari called for &#8220;more safety measures to forestall tragic incidents of this kind.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I welcome the decision by the NAF\u00a0 authorities to investigate this accident, but I also call on them to publish and implement the recommendations of the reports of past investigations into air accidents, with a view to preventing future tragedies and putting closure to the families and friends of the deceased,&#8221; the President added.<\/p>\n<p>\u25aa\ufe0e Garba Shehu, Senior Special Assistant to the President, (Media &amp; Publicity)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Muhammadu Buhari mourns the tragic and unfortunate death of two officers in a Nigerian Air Force (NAF) plane crash in Kaduna. Reacting to the death of Flight Lieutenant Abubakar Alkali and Flight Lieutenant Elijah Haruna Karatu, the President said: &#8220;I am shocked beyond words by the demise of these two promising young men who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5781],"tags":[31,161,545],"class_list":["post-57201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-obituary","tag-buhari","tag-kaduna","tag-naf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57201","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=57201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57201\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}