Sadly, as Saulawa, a former popular broadcaster with the British Broadcasting Corporation’s (BBC) Hausa Service in the North East and Plateau State, dies on Monday at the age of 63 in Bauchi after a long illness.
It was gathered that hundreds of sympathisers including friend, family, children, relations attended the funeral prayers of a renowned journalist in northern Nigeria working with Radio France International (RFI), Shehu Saulawa, held Tuesday at the Gwallaga Jummaat Mosque, in Bauchi State.
He was also a lecturer at Bauchi’s Abubakar Tatari Ali Polytechnic (ATAP) Department of Mass Communication. He had also worked for the defunct Savannah Bank and the News Agency of Nigeria.
(NAN)