By Bashir Mohammed
Kano
Veteran Journalist and commentator, Malam Ujudud Sheriff, has died at the age of 60 after battling with a kidney ailment.
Born in the city of Kano in the year 1956, Sheriff started his journalism career as an editorial staff with the now rested Triumph Newspaper in the 1980s, rising to become the paper’s Editor-in-Chief, a position he held up till the time he was appointed as the Kano state Commissioner for Information by the Ndatsu administration.
Out of his insatiable desire to remain active in the pen pushing business, Sheriff later moved to the Daily Trust Newspaper as a columnist up till the time he developed serious kidney problem which he had been battling up till the time he breathed his last.
The late journalist died at an Abuja Hospital after a kidney transplant, according to family sources, and his remains were yet to arrived Kano at the time of filing in this report.
He is survived by two wives and nine children.
