{"id":29846,"date":"2020-09-13T15:38:19","date_gmt":"2020-09-13T15:38:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/nigeria\/?p=29846"},"modified":"2020-09-13T15:38:19","modified_gmt":"2020-09-13T15:38:19","slug":"buhari-reacts-as-gowons-presidential-air-fleet-pilot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/buhari-reacts-as-gowons-presidential-air-fleet-pilot","title":{"rendered":"Buhari reacts as Gowon\u2019s presidential air fleet pilot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Africa Press-Nigeria:<\/p>\n<p>President Muhammadu Buhari has sympathized with the family of former Managing Director of Nigeria Airways, Captain Paul Mamman Thahal over the death of the pilot.<\/p>\n<p>Buhari, in a statement by his Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Malam Garba Shehu, in Abuja on Saturday, consoled with former Head of State, Yakubu Gowon over the loss of a good friend, confidant and prayer partner.<\/p>\n<p>He sympathized with Thahal\u2019s wife, Mrs Atsa Thahal and daughter, Dr Adzira Thahal as well as all former members of staff of the Nigeria Airways and the entire aviation industry.<\/p>\n<p>The president believes that the resonating testimonies from the life of the deceased had proved him to be a man dedicated to promoting the kingdom of God on earth.<\/p>\n<p>He also lauded the deceased for committing himself to the virtues of practical Christianity like generosity, humility and selfless service.<\/p>\n<p>The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Late Thahal served meritoriously as Captain of Gen. Yakubu Gowon\u2019s Presidential Flight for nine years.<\/p>\n<p>He also supported the former Head of State in setting up the national spiritual platform, Nigeria Prays.<\/p>\n<p>The president prayed that God would remember his professional and spiritual investments in Nigeria, grant his soul eternal rest and comfort his family.<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-center code-block-16\">\n<div align=\"center\"><\/div>\n<div align=\"center\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa Press-Nigeria: President Muhammadu Buhari has sympathized with the family of former Managing Director of Nigeria Airways, Captain Paul Mamman Thahal over the death of the pilot. Buhari, in a statement by his Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Malam Garba Shehu, in Abuja on Saturday, consoled with former Head of State, Yakubu Gowon [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":28880,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,29,14],"tags":[97,433],"class_list":["post-29846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-head-lines","category-policy","tag-buhari","tag-yakubu"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Buhari reacts as Gowon\u2019s presidential air fleet pilot - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Africa Press-Nigeria:President Muhammadu Buhari has sympathized with the family of former Managing Director of Nigeria Airways, Captain\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/buhari-reacts-as-gowons-presidential-air-fleet-pilot\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Buhari reacts as Gowon\u2019s presidential air fleet pilot\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Africa Press-Nigeria:President Muhammadu Buhari has sympathized with the family of former Managing Director of Nigeria Airways, Captain\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/buhari-reacts-as-gowons-presidential-air-fleet-pilot\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-09-13T15:38:19+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2020\/08\/Muhammadu-Buhari-1024x683-1.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1024\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"683\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"alico\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"alico\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/buhari-reacts-as-gowons-presidential-air-fleet-pilot#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/buhari-reacts-as-gowons-presidential-air-fleet-pilot\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"alico\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/50afd2ef4f0e900bd0a176404a8484a7\"},\"headline\":\"Buhari reacts as Gowon\u2019s presidential air fleet pilot\",\"datePublished\":\"2020-09-13T15:38:19+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/buhari-reacts-as-gowons-presidential-air-fleet-pilot\"},\"wordCount\":219,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/buhari-reacts-as-gowons-presidential-air-fleet-pilot#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2020\/08\/Muhammadu-Buhari-1024x683-1.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Buhari\",\"yakubu\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"head lines\",\"Policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/buhari-reacts-as-gowons-presidential-air-fleet-pilot#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/buhari-reacts-as-gowons-presidential-air-fleet-pilot\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/buhari-reacts-as-gowons-presidential-air-fleet-pilot\",\"name\":\"Buhari reacts as Gowon\u2019s presidential air fleet pilot - 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