{"id":2772,"date":"2017-11-20T04:57:09","date_gmt":"2017-11-20T04:57:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nigerianews.ca\/?p=2772"},"modified":"2017-11-20T04:57:18","modified_gmt":"2017-11-20T04:57:18","slug":"former-vp-alex-ekwueme-dies-in-london-clinic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerianews.ca\/former-vp-alex-ekwueme-dies-in-london-clinic\/","title":{"rendered":"Former VP Alex Ekwueme Dies in London Clinic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/media.premiumtimesng.com\/wp-content\/files\/2017\/11\/Alex-Ekwueme.jpg?fit=550%2C306&amp;ssl=1\" alt=\"Related image\" width=\"881\" height=\"490\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Dr Alex Ifeanyichukwu Ekwueme, the Former Vice President of Nigeria, is dead.<\/p>\n<p>A statement from his family signed by his brother and the traditional ruler of Oko in Anambra State, Igwe Laz Ekwueme said that he died by 10:00 pm in a London clinic, Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The statement read: \u201cEkwueme family regrets to announce the peaceful passing away of their patriarch, the former Vice-President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria Dr. Alex Ifeanyichukwu Ekwueme GCON.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe sad event occurred at the London Clinic at 10:00 pm on Sunday 19th November 2017.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ekwueme had slumped in his Enugu residence, and immediately taken to the Memfys Neurosurgery Hospital Enugu, where he relapsed and went into a coma.<\/p>\n<p>As soon as he was stabilized in the hospital he was flown to London in an air ambulance last week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Alex Ifeanyichukwu Ekwueme, the Former Vice President of Nigeria, is dead. A statement from his family signed by his brother and the traditional ruler of Oko in Anambra State, Igwe Laz Ekwueme said that he died by 10:00 pm in a London clinic, Sunday. The statement read: \u201cEkwueme family regrets to announce the peaceful [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Former VP Alex Ekwueme Dies in London Clinic<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/nigerianews.ca\/former-vp-alex-ekwueme-dies-in-london-clinic\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Former VP Alex Ekwueme Dies in London Clinic\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Dr Alex Ifeanyichukwu Ekwueme, the Former Vice President of Nigeria, is dead. 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