Ex-Borno gov loses father in fire accident

The father of a former governor of Borno State, Ali Modu Sheriff, has died in a fire incident, Thursday, officials confirmed.

The deceased Modu Sheriff the Galadima of Borno Emirate died in a fire incident in his house in Maiduguri, the state capital.

The special adviser of the state governor on media, Isa Gusau, disclosed this in a Facebook post while he described the deaths of the Galadima and Abba Kyari as an act of “martyrdom” according to the Islamic faith.

“There is one lesson the wise must learn from the deaths, in one week, of Malam Abba Kyari and Galadima Modu Sheriff, both prominent personalities from Borno State,” he said.

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He added that “Kyari died from a plague, while Galadima died from a fire incident. “We all know the many things often said about personalities because most of the time, we humans like to pass judgment on others. I am also not a saint in this.

“Now, as many of Muslims already know, deaths by plague (epidemic and pandemic) and by fires, are amongst the seven classifications of deaths by shahada (martyrdom), as taught from hadith of our noble Prophet.”

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