May 8, 2024

 

Founding Managing Director of Democrat Newspaper and former President of the Newspaper Proprietors Association of Nigeria (NPAN), Mallam Ismaila Isa Funtua, is dead. He died of cardiac arrest Monday night.

He was life patron of Newspaper’s Proprietors Association of Nigeria (NPAN) and Chairman of Bulet Construcion company.

Funtua is a very powerful figure in the presidential Villa and his closeness to President Muhammadu Buhari has earned a member of the “presidential cabals”.

He will be buried according to Islamic rites Tuesday.

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