{"id":68597,"date":"2024-02-04T11:38:53","date_gmt":"2024-02-04T11:38:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=68597"},"modified":"2024-02-04T11:38:53","modified_gmt":"2024-02-04T11:38:53","slug":"namibian-president-hage-geingob-is-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=68597","title":{"rendered":"Namibian President, Hage Geingob, is dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 19px;\">President of Namibia, Hage Geingob, is dead. An announcement by the Acting President, <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 19px;\">Dr. Nangolo Mbumba, <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 19px;\">confirmed the death. He was aged 82.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 19px;\">The announcement reads: &#8220;Fellow Namibians, It is with utmost sadness and regret that I inform you that our beloved Dr. Hage G. Geingob, the President of the Republic of Namibia has passed on today, Sunday 4 February 2024 at around 00h04 at Lady Pohamba Hospital where he was receiving medical treatment from his medical team.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 19px;\">&#8220;At his side, was his dear wife Madame Monica Geingos and his children. His medical team, as I informed the nation only yesterday\u00a0 has been trying its utmost best to ensure that our President recovers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 19px;\">&#8220;Regrettably, notwithstanding the team\u2019s spirited effort to save his life, sadly, fellow Namibians, President Geingob passed on. \u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 19px;\">&#8220;Fellow Namibians, the Namibian nation has lost a distinguished servant of the people, a liberation struggle icon, the chief architect of our constitution and the pillar of the Namibian house. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 19px;\">&#8220;At this moment of deepest sorrow, I appeal to the nation to remain calm and collected while the Government attends to all necessary state arrangements, preparations and other protocols. Further announcements in this regard will be made. \u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 19px;\">&#8220;While keeping the President\u2019s bereaved family, and you, dear fellow Namibians, in our thoughts and prayers, Cabinet will convene with immediate effect in order to make the necessary state arrangements in this regard. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 19px;\">&#8220;May the Soul of our beloved Dr Hage G. Geingob Rest in Eternal Peace.&#8221;<\/span><!--\/data\/user\/0\/com.samsung.android.app.notes\/files\/clipdata\/clipdata_bodytext_240204_123314_288.sdocx--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President of Namibia, Hage Geingob, is dead. An announcement by the Acting President, Dr. Nangolo Mbumba, confirmed the death. He was aged 82. The announcement reads: &#8220;Fellow Namibians, It is with utmost sadness and regret that I inform you that our beloved Dr. Hage G. Geingob, the President of the Republic of Namibia has passed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":68598,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,5781],"tags":[1753,6487,6488],"class_list":["post-68597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-obituary","tag-dead","tag-geingob","tag-namibia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68597","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=68597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68597\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/68598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}