By Aluta News
August 18, 2020
Breaking: Former NAN MD dies at 70
The former former NAN managing Director, Malam Wada Maida is dead.
The death of the former Editor-in-Chief and Managing Director of News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), was confirmed by his family on Monday.
The late Maida dies around 10:00pm in Abuja after a brief illness.
A family source told Daily Trust that the deceased returned from Katsina earlier on Monday where he went to sympathize with one of his friends who lost his wife last week.
Until his death, Maida was the Chairman, Board of Directors of NAN and member of the Executive Board of International Press Institute.
The decease celebrated his 70th birthday in March, 2020.