A former Speaker of the House of Representatives, Ghali Umar Na’Abba has reportedly died in the early hours of Wednesday in Abuja.
A family source told this newspaper that the former lawmaker died in an Abuja hospital following a brief illness.
Ghali Umar Na’Abba CFR was born into the family of Alhaji Umar Na’Abba, a businessman in Tudun Wada, Kano City, Kano Municipal Local Government on 27 September 1958.
Na’Abba was a political scientist and a policy architect. He obtained a bachelor’s degree in Political Science from the Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria in 1979. His early education was at Jakara Primary School, Kano where he obtained his First School Leaving Certificate in 1969.