Gombe (Nigeria) — The Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, has sympathised with Journalists in Gombe of over the loss of their colleague, Daniel Nyam Gwash of Nigeria Standard Newspaper.The Operation Controller of the DPR, Abdullahi Abawa, led officials of the Department to Nigeria Union of Journalists Correspondents’ Chapel in Gombe.
He said as a body relating with Journalists, the Department was grieved with the Mr. Gwash.
“we would like to express our deep condolences on sudden death of your member we understand the situation of your heart but you have to balance yourself and need to come out of this grief. Please accept our deep sympathy at this sad event,” he said.
Responding, Chairman of the Chapel, Abdullahi Tukur, described late Daniel Gwash as one of the gentle and hard working journalists in Gombe.
Gwash passed away on Thursday 5 October 2017, from protracted illness at a hospital in Jos, central Nigeria, where he was receiving treatment.
Before his death, Gwash who hailed from Jos, Plateau State was a practicing journalists in Gombe reporting for Nigeria Standard Newspaper since 2002.
He left behind one wife 4 children and will buried on Thursday 12 October 2017.
