The Managing Editor of the Al-Hajj newspaper, Alhaji Iddrisu Bature, has passed on after a short illness.<\/p>\n
Alhaji Bature, who is also an outspoken political commentator and a sympathizer of the opposition National Democratic Congress, is said to have died today, Friday, at the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital where he had been on admission.<\/p>\n
A relative of Mr. Bature, who was at the mortuary as at the time he spoke to citifmonline.com<\/strong>, confirmed the death.<\/p>\n The family in a statement said the late journalist, who is the founder of Al-Hajj Newspaper, will be buried on Saturday, January 6, 2018 in line with the Islamic faith.<\/p>\n Read the family’s statement below:<\/strong><\/p>\n Statement on The Sudden Demise of Alhaji Bature Iddrisu<\/p>\n The Iddrisu family and Harzet Company Limited, publishers of The aL-hAJJ newspaper, wish to announce the sudden and untimely death of Alhaji Bature Iddrisu, Managing Editor of The aL-hAJJ newspaper.<\/p>\n The late Alhaji Bature gave up the ghost few minutes past 3 p.m. at the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital where he was receiving treatment after a short illness.<\/p>\n In line with the Islamic faith, Janaiza prayers will be observed tomorrow, Saturday, January 6, 2018 at his family house at Nima, Gorillas; adjacent UNIBANK. The mortal remains will then be conveyed to the Madina Cemetery at 1p.m. for burial.<\/p>\n We pray to Allah to forgive his shortcomings and grant him Jannatil Firdaus. Indeed, from Allah we come and unto him is our return.<\/p>\n Amos Blessing Amorse –<\/p>\n By: citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Managing Editor of the Al-Hajj newspaper, Alhaji Iddrisu Bature, has passed on after a short illness. Alhaji Bature, who is also an outspoken political commentator and a sympathizer of the opposition National Democratic Congress, is said to have died today, Friday, at the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital where he had been on admission. A […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":389215,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[10005,3,15900],"class_list":["post-389211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-top-stories","tag-alhaji-bature","tag-ghana-news","tag-journalist-alhaji-bature-passes-on"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=389211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389211\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/389215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=389211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=389211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=389211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nNews Editor, The aL-hAJJ\/Spokesperson for the Iddrisu family<\/p>\n