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Chief Imam of Suleja dies at 76 after pilgrimage from S’Arabia

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The Chief Imam of the Suleja Central Mosque in Niger State, Sheikh Dahiru Shuaibu, died on Saturday a few hours after he returned from pilgrimage in Makkah, Saudi Arabia.

 

A family source, Abduljalil Dahiru Shuaibu, said the imam who returned from Saudi Arabia on Saturday around 9am died of cardiac arrest around 11pm in his residence.

His remains were buried according to Islamic rites at the Suleja Muslim, ROYAL NEWS reports.

He said, “I was among the family members who went to the Abuja airport on Saturday morning to receive the imam back home. But around 11pm, I received a call that the imam had passed on.”The imam, who died at the age of 76, was a retired khadi of the Shari’a Court of Appeal, Minna, Niger State, and was married to four wives, had 30 children and many grandchildren.

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