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| Umaru Shinkafi |
FORMER
presidential aspirant, Alh. Umaru Aliyu Shinkafi on Wednesday passed on in
London hospital after where he frequented for more than six months over his
illness.
Shinkafi,
who was a former Director-General of the Nigerian Security Organization (NSO),
now Department of State Security Service ( DSS) from October 1979 to November
1983, was flown abroad in January after his health deteriorated.
The
late Marafan Sokoto had initially received treatment at both St. Nicholas
Hospital and Reddington Hospital, Ikeja in Lagos from where he was referred to
London...
His
corpse, according to sources, is expected back to Nigeria for burial on or
before Friday because of flight logistics.
He
is survived by three wives and five children including the present First Ladies
in Kebbi and Zamfara states.
Shinkafi,
who took a career in the Nigeria Police Force in 1959, was also a graduate of
the University of Lagos where he bagged his Bachelor of Laws (LL.B) degree in
1973.
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