AYADE MOURNS AS FORMER SENATE PRESIDENT, JOSEPH WAYAS DIES IN LONDON AT 80

Former President of the Nigerian Senate, Joseph Wayas, is dead. Governor Ben Ayade of Cross Rivers State, made this known on Thursday in Calabar, the state capital. The 81 years-old Wayas, died in a London hospital in the early hours of Thursday after a protracted illness. Wayas served as Nigeria’s third Senate President during the country’s second republic and was in office between 1979–1983. Governor Ayade in a Facebook post said, “I received with profound sense of loss and shock, the sad news of the death of Former President of…

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