Imam Imam, spokesman of Sokoto State governor, Aminu Tambuwal, is dead.
Imam, 41, died in the early hours of Friday at the Nizamieye Turkish Hospital in Abuja, his younger brother, Abubakar Imam, said.
He will be buried at the Al-Nur Mosque, Abuja after Jummat prayers.
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Imam, who is a native of Taraba State, began his journalism career at Millennium Weekly newspaper in 2000 before joining ThisDay.
The graduate of mass communication from Kaduna Polytechnic, was a member of the Nigerian Institute of Public Relations (NIPR), Nigerian Union of Journalists (NUJ) and a graduate member of the Nigerian Institute of Management (NIM).
Imam is survived by two wives and four children.