Reps Deputy Majority Leader is dead

The deputy majority leader of the House of Representatives and former speaker of the Kogi State House of Assembly, Umar Jibril, who gained notoriety for sponsoring a controversial bill for regulation of Non-Governmental Organisations operating in Nigeria is dead.

The 58 -year-old lawmaker died after a brief illness and was a member of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).

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