Breaking! Nigeria’s Former President, Shagari Is Dead

Nigerian’s Second Republic President, Alhaji Shehu Usman Aliyu Shagari, GCFR, is dead.

His death was announced on Twitter by his grandson, Bello Shagari.

Bello wrote on his twitter handle,”I regret announcing the death of my grandfather, H.E Alhaji Shehu Shagari, who died right now after brief illness at the National hospital, Abuja.”

The late Shehu Usman Aliyu Shagari GCFR who died at 93 years served as the first and only President of Nigeria’s Second Republic, after the handover of power by General Olusegun Obasanjo’s military government.

According to Wikipedia, Shagari also served seven times in a ministerial or cabinet post as a federal minister and federal commissioner from 1958–1975.