BREAKING NEWS: Wife of Nigeria's Sports Minister is dead

The Minister of Youth and Sports Development, Barrister Solomon Dalung has announced that he lost his wife.

 Solomon Dalung stated this on his Facebook Page on Sunday morning.

 He said he was bereaved "For it is appointed for man to live thereafter comes death and judgment says the Holy Bible. While in the Quran it states that it s appointed that every soul shall test death.

"My heart is heavy, I cannot continue, I lost my first wife, Mrs Briskils this morning. May her soul and the souls of the faithful departed rest in the bosom of the lord, amen."

The Minister was pictured crying on the status he updated on Facebook.