{"id":1157,"date":"2026-04-07T11:04:29","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T11:04:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepublicsquare.com.ng\/?p=1157"},"modified":"2026-04-07T11:04:31","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T11:04:31","slug":"breaking-kebbi-assembly-speaker-dies-in-egypt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepublicsquare.com.ng\/index.php\/2026\/04\/07\/breaking-kebbi-assembly-speaker-dies-in-egypt\/","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING: Kebbi assembly speaker dies in Egypt"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-post-featured-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"587\" height=\"519\" src=\"https:\/\/thepublicsquare.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/IMG_5709.jpeg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" style=\"object-fit:cover;\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thepublicsquare.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/IMG_5709.jpeg 587w, https:\/\/thepublicsquare.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/IMG_5709-300x265.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 587px) 100vw, 587px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n<p>Speaker of the Kebbi State House of Assembly, Muhammad Usman Zuru, is dead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Zuru died on Monday night in an Egyptian hospital where he had been receiving treatment for an undisclosed illness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>His death was confirmed by sources close to the Kebbi State Government, although details surrounding his illness were not disclosed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Until his death, he represented Zuru Constituency in the state assembly and was regarded as a key figure in the legislature.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Confirming the development, an aide to the governor on Communication and Strategy, Idris Zuru, described the incident as shocking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe death of the Speaker, Rt. Hon. Muhammad Usman Zuru, came to us as a rude shock. It is a painful loss not only to Kebbi State but to the entire nation,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He added that further details would be provided by the government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe are still gathering full details surrounding his passing. The government will make an official statement and announce burial arrangements in consultation with the family,\u201d Zuru stated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Further announcements on funeral arrangements are expected from the state government and the family.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker of the Kebbi State House of Assembly, Muhammad Usman Zuru, is dead. Zuru died on Monday night in an Egyptian hospital where he had&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1158,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepublicsquare.com.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepublicsquare.com.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepublicsquare.com.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepublicsquare.com.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepublicsquare.com.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1157"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepublicsquare.com.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1157\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1159,"href":"https:\/\/thepublicsquare.com.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1157\/revisions\/1159"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepublicsquare.com.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepublicsquare.com.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepublicsquare.com.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepublicsquare.com.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}