Yobe state Governor,  Hon. Mai Mala Buni, has condoled with Alhaji Yusuf Alli, a veteran journalist and Editor Northern Operations of The Nation Newspaper, over the death of his mother, Hajiya Hauwa Alli.


Buni described the death as a sad and huge loss to the family and community.


Buni, in a statement by his spokesman, Mamman Mohammed on Friday, said: “The demise of Hajiya Hauwa was a personal loss to the family and a monumental loss to the community."


He added that the community had lost a mother whose large and accommodating heart had positively touched many lives in the community.


The governor said: “I understand that she always had deep concern for any problem in the community, she sees any problem in the community as  her personal problem and pursues it with vigour. 


"She was an asset to all that will be missed by all.”


He prayed Allah to forgive her shortcomings and to admit her into Aljannatur Firdaus.


He consoled the family, urging them to continue with the good works of their late mother.


"You should immortalise her with that sense of concern for other people, promote peace and peaceful

 coexistence in the community as she had always done" Buni said.