Tragedy hits Appeal Court President, loses 38-yr-old son

The President of the Court of Appeal Nigeria, Justice Monica Dongban-Mensem, has lost her second son.

Prince Paeke Shapnaan Dongban, 38, reportedly died in his sleep in the early hours of Saturday.

A source who spoke to the media said the judge’s family had been thrown into darkness.

The deceased, who studied Mathematics at the Federal University of Technology, Minna, Niger State, was a staff of the Federal Ministry of Transport in Lagos.

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Mr Dongban’s death is coming 11 years after the tragic death of the first son of the jurist, Kwapda’as Rangna’an Samson Dongban, who was killed by a hit and run driver in Jos, Plateau State capital, in 2011.

The judge had set up the Kwapda’as Road Safety Demand Foundation in honour of her first son.