{"id":66669,"date":"2021-08-04T17:12:27","date_gmt":"2021-08-04T16:12:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/?p=66669"},"modified":"2021-08-04T17:12:27","modified_gmt":"2021-08-04T16:12:27","slug":"just-in-ex-senator-nuhu-aliyu-is-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2021\/08\/04\/just-in-ex-senator-nuhu-aliyu-is-dead\/","title":{"rendered":"JUST IN: Ex-senator Nuhu Aliyu is dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A former senator representing Niger North in the National Assembly, Nuhu Aliyu, is dead.<\/p>\n<p>The Niger State Government confirmed his death in a press statement on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The statement by the Secretary to State Government, Ahmed Matane, noted Aliyu died on Wednesday in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2021\/08\/04\/again-three-bethel-baptist-students-escape-from-bandits-in-kaduna\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kaduna<\/a> State following a brief illness.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe patriotic tendencies and excellent handling of legislative duties concerning the welfare of people and the nation demonstrated by late Senator Nuhu Aliyu are worthy of emulations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut we must take solace in the fact that from God we all come and to Him we shall all return. Nobody shall live longer than the time appointed by Almighty God,\u201d the statement read in part.<\/p>\n<p>Nuhu Aliyu, a Chieftain of the People\u2019s Democratic Party was the first chairman of the PDP in Niger state before being elected into the Senate of the Federal Republic of Nigeria in 1999 and was re-elected to the same position in 2003 and 2007.<\/p>\n<p>Born in 1941, the deceased studied Advanced Police Management at the Police College Jos and rose to become a Deputy Inspector General of Police.<\/p>\n<p>He was in charge of the Force Criminal Investigation Department before he retired.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, due to Aliyu\u2019s death, Governor Abubakar Sani-Bello has suspended the weekly State Executive Council Meeting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A former senator representing Niger North in the National Assembly, Nuhu Aliyu, is dead. The Niger State Government confirmed his death in a press statement on Wednesday. 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