BREAKING: Powerful former NLC president dies, union reacts

Comrade Ali Ciroma, a former president of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), has passed awayCiroma died at the University of Maiduguri Teaching Hospital, Maiduguri, Borno state capital, on Tuesday, April 2The late activist was Nigeria’s third NLC president, preceded by Wahab Goodluck and Paschal BafyauLegit.ng journalist Ridwan Adeola Yusuf has over 9 years of experience covering public journalism.

Maiduguri, Borno state – Ali Ciroma, a former president of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), is dead.

Ciroma breathed his last at the University of Maiduguri Teaching Hospital, Maiduguri, Borno state capital, on Tuesday, April 2.

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Source: Getty ImagesAs reported by The Punch, a family member, who is also the secretary of the Borno state council of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), Ali Ibrahim Ciroma, announced the death of the unionist in a statement.

Vanguard newspaper also noted the sad development.

The statement partly reads:

“It is with deep sorrow that I announce the death of Comrade Ali Ciroma, former President of the Nigeria Labour Congress.“The sad event occurred this evening (Tuesday, April 2) at the University of Maiduguri Teaching Hospital.”Legit.ng reports that Ciroma was the president of the NLC from 1984 to 1988, when he was forced out of office by the then-military administration of General Ibrahim Babangida, which dissolved the union.

He joined the union movement when he was 17. The deceased was also the president of the Rural Health Workers of Nigeria in 1960 before it eventually became the Medical and Health Workers Association.

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Source: Legit.ng