Ex-DIG, Nuhu Aliyu, is dead

Nuhu Aliyu, a Retired Deputy Inspector General of Police (DIG) and former senator representing Niger North in the National Assembly, is dead.

Aliyu died in Kaduna Wednesday aged 79 years after a brief illness.

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Niger State government suspended its 18th state executive council meeting in honour of the elder statesman’s demise.

The state’s Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Mohammed Sani Idris, announced Aliyu’s death during a briefing in Minna after the suspension of the state weekly executive council sitting.

“The patriotic tendencies and excellent handling of legislative duties concerning the welfare of people and the nation demonstrated by the late Senator Nuhu Aliyu are worthy of emulation.

“But we must take solace in the fact that from God we all came and to Him we shall all return. Nobody shall live longer than the time appointed by the Almighty God,” said a statement by the Secretary to the State Government, Ahmed Matane.

Late Aliyu, a chieftain of the People’s Democratic Party, was the first chairman of the PDP in Niger State before elected into the Senate of the Federal Republic of Nigeria in 1999 and was reelected to the same position in 2003 and 2007.

Born in 1941, the deceased studied Advanced Police Management at the Police College Jos, and rose to become a Deputy Inspector General of Police.

He was in charge of the Force Criminal Investigation Department before he retired.