Comrade Ali Ciroma, former President of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), died yesterday Tuesday April 2.
Comrade Ciroma passed away at the University of Maiduguri Teaching Hospital, Maiduguri, Borno State capital.
The Secretary of the Borno State Council, Nigeria Union of Journalists, Ali Ibrahim Ciroma, announced the death in a statement on Tuesday.
The burial for the repose of the deceased will be held today, Wednesday at 4pm in his residence No.7A along Galadima Road near Muhammadu Shuwa Memorial Hospital (Nursing Home), Maiduguri.
Comrade Ciroma served as the president of the NLC from 1984 to 1988 until he was ousted by the military administration of Gen Ibrahim Babangida, which disbanded the union. However, during the Abacha regime, he was reinstated into the realm of unionism, being appointed as the Sole Administrator of the Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers.
