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Benue NUJ Boss, Victoria Asher Is dead
The Chairman of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), Benue Branch, Comrade Victoria Asher is Dead.
The disclosure was contained in a statement issued on Saturday by the Secretary of NUJ Benue Council, Mr. Moses Akaahan.
Mr Moses said that Asher died on Saturday at the Federal Medical Centre, Makurdi after a caesarian, around 8 a.m.
“Benue NUJ Council is expected to give notice for an emergency congress to that effect in due course”, the statement added.
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Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue State has sympathized with the family and members of Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), Benue State council, over the death of their chairman, Mrs Victoria Asher.
Mrs Asher died Saturday morning at about 8:00am at the Federal Medical Centre, Makurdi after birth.
She was said to have given birth to a set of twins through a cesarian surgery.
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Governor Ortom in a statement by his Chief Press Secretary, Terver Akase said that the demise of Mrs Asher is “a painful loss not only to the media community but also to the entire state.”
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The Chairman of the Nigeria Union of Journalists in Benue State, Comrade Victoria Asher, has died after giving birth to twins.
This is according to a statement issued by the NUJ State Secretary, Moses Akarhan.
The statement said Asher died 8am on Saturday at the Federal Medical Centre in Makurdi following a cesarean section surgery.
She was delivered of a set of twins – a male and a female – before complications arose.
The deceased who worked with the state-owned radio station became the NUJ Chairman, Benue Council in December 2018 following the death of David Ukuma who held the post for two months before he died.
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