AD Jafaru dies at 85
The former Director Land Administration of old Kaduna state Alhaji Abubakar Dantsoho Jafaru died yesterday at the age 85 years.
Family source confirmed his death to Daily Trust shortly after his funeral prayer led by the Imam of Yahaya Road Mosque Kaduna Sheikh Mukhtar Muhammad Azare.
Hundreds of sympathisers including former colleagues, traditional rulers, senior government officials, politicians, family friends and other President Muhammadu Buhari has declined assent to five bills forwarded to him by the National Assembly.
The president, in five different letters written to the Senate, gave reasons for withholding assent to the bill.
The rejected bills are the Nigerian Film Commission Bill 2018, Climate Change Bill 2018, Immigration (Amendment) Bill 2018, Chartered Institute of Pension Practitioners well wishers throng the funeral prayers and the burial.
The source said that the decease died Wednesday morning after a protracted illness and is survive by two wives and 22 children and grandchildren. of Nigeria Bill 2018, and the Digital Rights and Freedom Bill, 2018.
Buhari said he declined assent to the Nigerian Film Commission Bill partly because Sections 1 (3) (d) and (e) of the bill conflicts with Section 2 (a) (i), (ii) and (c) of the National Film and Video Censors Board Act, which confers functions in relation to film exhibition on the board.
The president also said one of the reasons he rejected the climate change bill was because it replicates