Journalist Dies Of Cardiac Arrest In National Assembly

Tijani Adeyemi, a Senate correspondent of the Tribune Newspaper, has died of cardiac arrest.

The unfortunate incident reportedly occurred on Wednesday in one of the National Assembly shuttle buses.

The Tribune reporter had boarded one of the shuttles from the main gate, known as Mopol Gate around, at 10 am and by the time he got to the checkpoint, he was discovered to be lifeless.

Efforts to resuscitate him were futile and he was pronounced dead when rushed to the clinic of the Secretary General of the Federation.

The deceased was thereafter transferred to the National Assembly’s clinic for evacuation and burial after being pronounced dead at the medical clinic.

His remains were laid to rest at the Gudu Cemetery in line with Islamic rites.