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Former Minister, Aisha Al-Hassan ‘Mama Taraba’ Is Dead

Former Minister, Aisha Al-Hassan ‘Mama Taraba’ Is Dead

 

 

 

 

Former Minister of Women Affairs of Nigeria, Aisha Jummai Al-Hassan, popularly known as Mama Taraba is dead.

The ex-minister was said to have passed away on Friday at an undisclosed hospital in Cairo, Egypt at the age of 61.

Al-Hassan was appointed the Minister of Women Affairs by President Muhammadu Buhari in 2015.

She, however, resigned her position on July 27, 2018, and thereafter dumped the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) for the United Democratic Party (UDP) where she emerged as the party’s governorship candidate in the 2019 general elections in Taraba State.

Mama Taraba however lost to the incumbent, Governor Darius Ishaku who ran for a second term in office under the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).

Prior to her ministerial appointment, Al-Hassan was a former Senator of the Federal Republic of Nigeria representing the Taraba North Senatorial District under the PDP.

Angela Davies

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