{"id":9835,"date":"2020-07-10T11:00:59","date_gmt":"2020-07-10T11:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/?p=9835"},"modified":"2020-07-10T11:00:59","modified_gmt":"2020-07-10T11:00:59","slug":"lagos-lawmaker-tunde-buraimoh-is-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/2020\/07\/10\/lagos-lawmaker-tunde-buraimoh-is-dead\/","title":{"rendered":"Lagos lawmaker, Tunde Buraimoh, is dead"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The lawmaker representing Kosofe Constituency II in the Lagos State House of Assembly, Tunde Buraimoh, is dead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Our reporters gathered that the lawmaker died around 4 am on Friday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><ins><\/ins><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He died at the age of 60.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was learnt that Buraimoh, who was the Assembly\u2019s spokesperson, had been absent from the Assembly\u2019s Complex for two weeks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Close sources to the lawmaker said he died of an undisclosed illness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The lawmaker representing Kosofe Constituency 1 in the Lagos Assembly, Sanni Okanlawon, confirmed Buraimoh\u2019s death.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When contacted, the Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, Lagos State, Tunde Balogun, said, \u201cI heard about his death.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He, however, could not give details about the lawmaker\u2019s death.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The lawmaker representing Ojo Constituency I, Victor Akande, also confirmed his demise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He said, \u201cIt is true that we lost Tunde Braimoh, I could not sleep since 1 am when I learnt about his demise, he is one of those who never toyed with his health.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><ins><\/ins><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Also, the Chief Press Secretary to the Kosofe Local Government Chairman, Taiwo Fadipe, said Buraimoh died after a brief illness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fadipe said, \u201cHe died at a hospital around Ikorodu road. He died overnight.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The late lawmaker was the Chairman of Kosofe Local Government between 1999 and 2002. He was also the Bamofin of Ketuland.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Born September 30, 1960, Buraimoh attended Ogun State University, Ago-Iwoye where he studied law and graduated in 1988.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He was reelected for a second term as a lawmaker on Saturday, March 9.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The lawmaker representing Kosofe Constituency II in the Lagos State House of Assembly, Tunde Buraimoh, is dead. Our reporters gathered that the lawmaker died around 4 am on Friday. He died at the age of 60. It was learnt that Buraimoh, who was the Assembly\u2019s spokesperson, had been absent from the Assembly\u2019s Complex for two [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9836,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-naija-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.funminews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Tunde-Buraimoh-is-dead.jpg?fit=822%2C427&ssl=1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9835","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9835\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}