Ex-Deputy Senate President Ibrahim Mantu dead
Former Deputy Senate President Ibrahim Mantu is dead.
Mr Mantu died in the early hours of Tuesday at the DIFF Hospital Abuja after a brief illness, Shehu Nura, a family friend, told the BBC.
He served in that position between 2003 and 2007.
Details later.
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