BREAKING: Former Senator, Aisha Al-Hassan Mama Taraba Is Dead—-Nigeria ex-senator and a former minister of Women Affairs and Social Development, Aisha-Jummai Alhassan, is dead.
The Genius Media Nigeria reports that she died at age 61 at a Cairo hospital on Friday afternoon.
She was appointed minister in 2015 by President Muhammadu Buhari to represent Taraba State after losing the 2015 governorship election to the incumbent Darius Ishaku.
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Popularly known as ‘Mama Taraba’, Ms Alhassan was born on September 16, 1959 in Jalingo, Taraba State.
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She resigned as the minister on July 27, 2018 after the ruling APC screening committee disqualified her from the 2019 governorship primaries.
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