Governor Shema loses younger brother

Alhaji Kabir Shema, a junior brother to Governor Ibrahim Shema of Nigeria’s northern Katsina State is dead.

The Senior Special Assistant (SSA) to the Governor on Press Matters, Alhaji Abdulhamid Danjuma, said Kabir died at Katsina General Hospital on Thursday night at the age of 46, after a brief illness.

Until his death, Kabir was a staff of the Nigeria Immigration Service, Katsina State Command. He had since been buried according to Islamic rites.

He was survived by one wife and four children.