Updating your news feed...
NEWS EXPRESS is Nigeria’s leading online newspaper. Published by Africa’s international award-winning journalist, Mr. Isaac Umunna, NEWS EXPRESS is Nigeria’s first truly professional online daily newspaper. It is published from Lagos, Nigeria’s economic and media hub, and has a provision for occasional special print editions. Thanks to our vast network of sources and dedicated team of professional journalists and contributors spread across Nigeria and overseas, NEWS EXPRESS has become synonymous with newsbreaks and exclusive stories from around the world.
Loading banners
Loading banners...
A photo combination of late Ibrahim Shamaki and his daughter, Fatima
By GARBA MUHAMMAD, Kaduna
The father of one of the 39 abducted college students in Kaduna State, Ibrahim Shamaki, is dead.
Ibrahim was the father of Fatima Shamaki, one of the girls with hijab seen in the video that was released by bandits who invaded the Federal College of Forestry Mechanisation in the Afaka area of the state.
According to a family source, Abdullahi Usman, “Shamaki died of a heart attack after he fell ill shortly after the news of his daughter’s abduction was broken to him.
“He later died on Friday evening while his relatives were about to take him to a hospital for further medical treatment.
“The news of Ibrahim’s death broke hours after the state government met with representatives of the grieving parents of the missing students at the Government House in the state capital.”
This comes as Fatima Shamaki and the other abducted students prepare to spend their 15th night in the captivity of the bandits.
