Ghali Umar Na’Abba, a former speaker of the house of representatives, is dead. He was aged 65.
A family source told newsmen that the former lawmaker died in an Abuja hospital following a brief illness.
Mr Na’Abba was born into the family of Umar Na’Abba, a businessman in Tudun Wada, Kano City, on 27 September 1958.
He obtained a bachelor’s degree in Political Science from the Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria in 1979.