{"id":234041,"date":"2025-08-09T10:25:36","date_gmt":"2025-08-09T10:25:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abianewscentral.com.ng\/breaking-ex-minister-audu-ogbe-is-dead\/"},"modified":"2025-08-09T10:25:36","modified_gmt":"2025-08-09T10:25:36","slug":"breaking-ex-minister-audu-ogbe-is-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/breaking-ex-minister-audu-ogbe-is-dead\/","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING: Ex-minister, Audu Ogbe is dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BREAKING: Ex-minister, Audu Ogbe is dead<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">\n<p>Nigeria\u2019s former Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Chief Audu Ogbeh, has passed away at the age of 78.<\/p>\n<p>He died on Saturday, August 9, 2025.<\/p>\n<p>A statement from the Ogbeh family confirmed his death, adding that, \u201cIt is with deep sadness that we announce the passing of our beloved husband, father and grandfather; Chief Audu Ogbeh.<\/p>\n<p>The family described him as a man who departed peacefully, leaving behind a legacy of integrity, service, and dedication to our nation and community.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are comforted by the many lives he touched and the example he set,\u201d the statement added.<\/p>\n<p>The statement said details of his funeral would be released later and thanked friends, colleagues, and well-wishers for their support.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will appreciate some privacy at this time while we mourn the loss of our patriarch,\u201d the statement concluded.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async defer crossorigin=\"anonymous\" src=\"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&amp;version=v9.0&amp;appId=420332301344305\" nonce=\"sm97MhBO\" type=\"pmdelayedscript\" data-cfasync=\"false\" data-no-optimize=\"1\" data-no-defer=\"1\" data-no-minify=\"1\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/dailypost.ng\/2025\/08\/09\/breaking-ex-minister-audu-ogbe-is-dead\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BREAKING: Ex-minister, Audu Ogbe is dead Nigeria\u2019s former Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Chief Audu Ogbeh, has passed away at the age of 78. He died on Saturday, August 9, 2025. A statement from the Ogbeh family confirmed his death, adding that, \u201cIt is with deep sadness that we announce the passing of our [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":234042,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[173],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-234041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234041\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}