{"id":25535,"date":"2013-02-11T20:03:07","date_gmt":"2013-02-11T20:03:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2013\/02\/afcon-2013-retired-banker-dies-watching-nigeriaburkina-faso-match\/"},"modified":"2013-02-11T20:03:07","modified_gmt":"2013-02-11T20:03:07","slug":"afcon-2013-retired-banker-dies-watching-nigeriaburkina-faso-match","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/02\/11\/afcon-2013-retired-banker-dies-watching-nigeriaburkina-faso-match\/","title":{"rendered":"AFCON 2013: Retired Banker Dies Watching Nigeria\/Burkina Faso Match"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>A retired banker, Felix Bassey, 65, died on Sunday while watching the finals of the just-concluded Africa Cup of Nation (AFCON) game at which Nigeria defeated Burkina Faso, 1-0.<\/p>\n<p>The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) gathered from a reliable source at The Eko Hospital, Ikeja, that the deceased was believed to have died of a heart-related ailment while watching the match at his residence in Akute area of Lagos.<\/p>\n<p>Bassey, slumped during the match was rushed to the hospital, where he was pronounced dead by doctors on duty.<\/p>\n<p>The source, who pleaded anonymity, told NAN that a member of the family confirmed that late Bassey had been hypertensive, prior to his death.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The wife, one of the matrons in the hospital, happened to be on night duty when Bassey was rushed to the hospital,&rsquo;&rsquo; it said.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the remains of late Bassey had since been deposited at the hospital morgue.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A retired banker, Felix Bassey, 65, died on Sunday while watching the finals of the just-concluded Africa Cup of Nation (AFCON) game at which Nigeria defeated Burkina Faso, 1-0. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) gathered from a reliable source at The Eko Hospital, Ikeja, that the deceased was believed to have died of a heart-related ailment while watching the match at his residence in Akute area of Lagos. &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25535\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}