The year 2024 has come and gone but left behind the memories of some prominent personalities who died within the year under-review.
HAJIYA FATIMA DADA MOTHER OF LATE PRESIDENT UMAR YARADUA.
Hajiya Dada as she is known, is a biological mother to late President Ummaru Musa Yaradua of blessed memory.
She died in the early month of September 2024 at the age of (100) years.
She is one of the highly respected mothers visited by prominent politicians in this country.
Her son, late Ummaru Musa Yaradua died of an illness in May 2010 as a seating President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
His elder brother, Shehu Musa Yaradua who was a military Deputy President, died in September 1992
SARKIN GOBIR OF GATAWA
This revered traditional ruler from Sokoto Sarkin Gobir of Gatawa was killed by suspected armed bandits on the 21 of August 2021 along Isa-Shinkafi forest.
His death brought in serious shock and reactions among Nigerians hence a week to his death his video footage went viral where he was pleading with the Sokoto State government to pay the ransom requested by his abducted before they eventually killed him.
He spent almost three weeks in the hand of his abductors who operated along Kwanar Maharba.
THE EMIR OF NINGI YUNUSA MUHAMNAD DANYAYA
On the 25th of August 2024 the Emir of Ningi Alh Yunusa Muhammad Danyaya died.
The monarch died at a private hospital in Kano at the age of (88).
Before his death, information from Kano Emirate council stated that the monarch just returned from a hospital in the kingdom of Saudi Arabian where he went for a medical attention.
The late Emir of Ningi Alh Yunusa Danyaya was born in 1936 in Ningi town, and he became an Emir in 1978, and he has been on the throne for over (46) years.
CHIEF OF ARMY STAFF LT. GEN. T. LABAGJA
In November 2024 Nigerian government announced the demise of the Nigerian Chief of Army Staff Lt. Gen. T. Lagbaja
He died as a result of an undisclosed ailment and the late army general spent quite some of the days without frequenting the public, a circumstance that created serious suspicion over his health condition.
President Bola Ahmad Tinubu described the demise of Gen. Lagbaja as a great lost to the country.
