President Muhammadu Buhari has condoled with the Nigerian media industry, especially the Nigerian Union of Journalists, NUJ, the Nigerian Guild of Editors, NGE and the management and staff of the New Telegraph over the death of the Saturday Editor of the New Telegraph, Waheed Bakare.
The President’s condolence message was contained in a release by the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Mr Femi Adesina.
President Buhari also sent condolence messages to family of the deceased and the management of New Telegraph Newspapers, describing the death of the editor as “a collective loss to the media and the nation that he served passionately with his talent.”
The President prayed God to receive the soul of the departed, and grant his family the fortitude to bear the loss, and comfort for all who mourned him.
