{"id":885505,"date":"2026-01-16T16:44:39","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T22:44:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/16\/former-cjn-justice-tanko-muhammad-dies-at-71-in-saudi-arabia\/"},"modified":"2026-01-16T16:44:39","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T22:44:39","slug":"former-cjn-justice-tanko-muhammad-dies-at-71-in-saudi-arabia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/16\/former-cjn-justice-tanko-muhammad-dies-at-71-in-saudi-arabia\/","title":{"rendered":"Former CJN, Justice Tanko Muhammad, dies at 71 in Saudi Arabia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Ibrahim Tanko Muhammad, GCON (rtd.), has passed away at the age of 71, after a brief illness. He died in a hospital in Saudi Arabia. The news of his demise has drawn widespread grief across the country, particularly within the legal community&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalaccordnewspaper.com\/former-cjn-justice-tanko-muhammad-dies-at-71-in-saudi-arabia\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><br \/>\n By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Ibrahim Tanko Muhammad, GCON (rtd.), has passed away at the age of 71, after a brief illness. He died in a hospital in Saudi Arabia. The news of his demise has drawn widespread grief across the country, particularly within the legal community&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":885506,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[148,225,192],"tags":[6221,6195],"class_list":{"0":"post-885505","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-former","8":"category-justice","9":"category-sports","10":"tag-former","11":"tag-justice"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/885505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=885505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/885505\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/885506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=885505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=885505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=885505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}