{"id":33034,"date":"2020-12-02T19:13:34","date_gmt":"2020-12-02T19:13:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/nigeria\/?p=33034"},"modified":"2020-12-02T19:13:34","modified_gmt":"2020-12-02T19:13:34","slug":"muhtar-usman-ex-ncaa-dg-is-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/muhtar-usman-ex-ncaa-dg-is-dead","title":{"rendered":"Muhtar Usman, ex-NCAA DG is dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\">Africa-Press<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/nigeria\">Nigeria<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>Muhtar Usman, former Director-General of the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA), is dead.<\/p>\n<p>Usman was 63 years old.<\/p>\n<p>He passed on, Tuesday night at a hospital in Zaria, Kaduna State.<\/p>\n<p>Usman led NCAA from October 2014 to 2019.<\/p>\n<p>President Muhammadu Buhari appointed Capt. Musa Nuhu as his replacement.<\/p>\n<p>The deceased was Managing Director of the defunct Nigeria Airways.<\/p>\n<p>He served as Commissioner, Accident Investigation Bureau (AIB).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. Muhtar Usman, former Director-General of the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA), is dead. Usman was 63 years old. He passed on, Tuesday night at a hospital in Zaria, Kaduna State. Usman led NCAA from October 2014 to 2019. President Muhammadu Buhari appointed Capt. Musa Nuhu as his replacement. The deceased was Managing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":33033,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,28,14,26],"tags":[1570,1578,1795,1067,254],"class_list":["post-33034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-homepage-english","category-policy","category-twitter","tag-africa-press","tag-breaking","tag-muhtar-usman","tag-ncaa","tag-nigeria"],"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>Muhtar Usman, ex-NCAA DG is dead - Nigeria<\/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:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/muhtar-usman-ex-ncaa-dg-is-dead\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Muhtar Usman, ex-NCAA DG is dead\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. 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