Nigeria: Yar'Adua Loses Security Detail

17 December 2007

Lagos — A security detail attached to President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua, Mr. Suleiman Adebayo, yesterday lost his life in a road accident along Abuja Airport Expressway.

In a statement by the Special Adviser to the President, Communications, Mr. Olusegun Adeniyi, Adebayo had, with other security personnel and State House officials, gone to the airport to receive the President who arrived from Washington, United States at about 9.40am.

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