The wedding which took place in Abuja on the 31st of july, was attended by Goodluck Jonathan, Maryam Abacha, Namadi Sambo and others
The wedding of Shehu, son of Umar Yar’Adua and his wife, Yacine, was also attended by the current first lady, Aisha Buhari and former Vice president, Namadi Sambo and many other dignitaries
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In another news, A young boy of 3-years-old has died following a heavy downpour that wreaked havoc in Bajoga town in Funakaye Local Government Area of Gombe State.
The rain which lasted for over five hours at the weekend resulted in heavy flooding that led to the collapse of one of the walls of the room where the child and his two-year-old sibling were sleeping in ‘Unguwar Fada,’ near the Emir’s Palace.
Remains of the boy have since been buried according to Islamic rites, while his critically injured younger brother was rushed to the Federal Teaching Hospital (FTH), Gombe for treatment.
Plenty other residents that sustained various degrees of injuries were receiving treatment at the General Hospital, Bajoga and other medical facilities.
A resident of Bajoga, Yahaya Haruna, told Daily Trust that the rainfall started at around 5:30am and lasted until about 11am, during which several people got injured while over 100 houses, many livestock and property worth millions of naira were also destroyed, mostly in Shara-Mansur and Bodoriyel areas of the town.
Leader of Rescue of the State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA), Muhammad Garba, who confirmed the incident, said they were still in Bajoga “Accessing the situation to ascertain the casualty figures and the actual number of houses, livestock and property destroyed by the incident.
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