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  • Ex-DSS DG Ekpenyong loses wife

    A former Director-General of the Department of State Service (DSS), Mr. Ekpenyong Ita, has lost his wife, Temitope.

    She died on March 13 after a brief illness.

    A statement by Ekpenyong Ita (Jr.) reads: “With total humility and submission to the will of God, we regret to announce the untimely demise of our wife, mother, sister and daughter, Mrs. Temitope Ekpenyong Ita, wife of the former Director-General of the State Security Service, Mr Ekpenyong Ita. She died on March 13 in Abuja after a brief illness.

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    “Mrs Ita, a lawyer, was until her death, a staff of the Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC) in Abuja. She is survived by her husband, children, aged father, brothers, sisters and other relatives.

    “Burial arrangement will be announced by the family.”

  • Former DSS DG, Ekpenyong, loses wife

    The family of former Director-General of the Department of State Security (DSS), Mr. Ekpenyong Ita, has announced the death of his wife, Temitope.

    In a statement issued by the couple’s son, Mr. Ekpenyong Ita (Jnr) in Abuja on yesterday,  his mum passed away after a brief illness. Mrs.Temitope Ekpenyong, a lawyer, worked at the Corporate Affairs Commission in Abuja.

    “She is survived by her husband, a former DSS DG, children, aged father, brothers, sisters and other relatives.

  • Justice Fagbe loses wife

    Mrs. Ayowumi Olajumoke Fagbe (nee Akinola), wife of Justice Fagbe, a retired judge of Ondo State High Court and former Solicitor General of Ondo State, is dead.

    Mrs.Fagbe  died on February 8, 2019,aged 66.

    She will be laid to rest on Friday after a funeral service at St Peter’s Anglican Church, Ijare.

    The deceased is survived by her husband and four children, Olubanke Fagbe, Omolabake Fasanmade, Kemisola Young and Bankole Fagbe.

  • Ex-CJN Mohammed loses wife, driver in auto crash

    THE immediate past Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Mahmud Mohammed, has lost one of his wives and driver in an auto crash.

    The wife, identified as Mrs. Hadiza Mahmud Mohammed and the driver, Abdulrauf Salami, died on the spot in the accident that occurred while they were travelling on Abuja-Kaduna road on Tuesday.

    A source close to the family told The Nation that other occupants of the vehicle – a Toyota Land Cruiser – including the ex-CJN’s second wife and a family member sustained injuries, but are now being attended to in a medical facility in Kaduna.

    It was learnt that the late Salami had been Justice Muhammed’s driver for over 25 years now, since his appointment as a High Court judge.

    The cause of the accident, the family source said, is yet to be made public by relevant authorities, including the Federal Road Safety Commission (FRSC).

    Some of the ex-CJN’s colleagues and other judicial officers, both serving and retired, are said to have visited his family house in Kaduna to commiserate with him and other members of his family.

    The Executive Secretary of the National Judicial Council (NJC), Ahmed Gambo Saleh, was said to have led some officials of the NJC, Federal Judicial Service Commission (FJSC), Supreme Court, among others, on a condolence visit to the ex-CJN on Wednesday.

     

     

     

  • Ex-Governor Goje loses wife

    •Senate mourns

    Chairman, Senate Committee on Appropriation, Mohammed Danjuma Goje, has lost his wife Hajiya Yelwa.

    She was 55.

    A statement by his son, Ahmed Mohammed, said Yelwa died in the United States of America.

    The statement reads: “With gratitude to Allah, I regret to announce the death of Hajiya Yelwa Danjuma Goje, wife of the former governor of Gombe State, Danjuma Goje.

    “She is survived by her husband, children, grand-children, relatives, supporters and admirers.”

    The Senate has commiserated with Goje on the death of his wife.

    A statement by Senate President Bukola Saraki said: “On behalf of the Senate, I commiserate with our brother, friend and colleague, Senator Danjuma Goje, chairman of the Senate Committee on Appropriation, on the loss of his wife, Hajia Yelwa Mohammed Goje.

    “Over the years, Mrs. Goje served as an exemplary pillar of support to her husband and played the role of a dedicated mother and mentor to many in her community.

    “As we join the Goje family to mourn her passing today, we pray that Allah grant her soul a place among the righteous ones in Al-Jannah Firdaus. We also pray that Allah grants the family the strength to bear this loss.”

  • Doctors’ strike: Journalist loses wife

    Doctors’ strike: Journalist loses wife

    The ongoing strike action by members of the Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) has claimed the life of Christiana, wife of the Kwara State correspondent of the National Trumpet newspaper, Mr. Kehinde Akinpelu.

    Mrs. Akinpelu, aged 43, died at the Bowen University Teaching Hospital, Ogbomosho in Oyo State, where she had been referred to by a private hospital in Ilorin due to the ongoing doctors’ strike.

    As a result, journalists in the state have urged the Federal Government and other stakeholders in the health sector to immediately bring to an end the ongoing strike by medical doctors.

    According to family sources, the late Christiana had taken ill on Thursday night and was rushed to a private clinic, from where she was later referred to Ogbomosho.

    In a statement signed by the Chairman and Secretary of the Correspondents chapel, Kwara State council of the NUJ, Bolaji Olanrewaju and Biola Azeez, chairman and secretary respectively, the NUJ said: “If the doctors were on duty at UITH, Ilorin there wouldn’t have been any reason to be sending this young family back and forth and the precious time wasted travelling between Ogbomosho and Ilorin could have been devoted to saving her life. Even the unnecessary stress the deceased went through were clearly avoidable in an environment with quality health personnel, but who are up in arms against their employers over issues they argue are justified.

    “We believe that both government and the doctors should sit down and be reasonable in ending this unnecessary strike that has led to a number of avoidable deaths. We would like to tell the doctors that no welfare package is worth the life of a single patient.”