Aisha Al-hassan Mama Taraba Is Dead
Report reaching our front desk that Aisha Al-Hassan, popular known as Mama Taraba is dead, she was said to have died on Friday in Cairo, Egypt.
Details of her death are sketchy but Daily Trust gathered that she died at a hospital in Egypt.
The deceased battled a protracted illness in her last years.
All you need to know about Aisha Al-Hassan ‘Mama Taraba’
She was 61 years old, she resigned as the Minister of Women Affairs on July 27, 2018 to contest the governorship election in Taraba.
Al-Hassan is a former Minister of Women Affairs and a former Senator of the Federal Republic of Nigeria from Taraba North Senatorial District.
She was also the All Progressives Congress’ Governorship Candidate for Taraba State in the 2015 general elections.
She contested for the same seat on the platform of the United Democratic Party in the 2019 general elections after resigning as a minister in the regime of the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.) on July 27, 2018.
The former senator was born on the 16th of September, 1959 in Jalingo, Taraba State, to Alhaji Abubakar Ibrahim, Sarkin Ayukan Muri.
Aisha Jummai Al-Hassan attended Muhammed Nya Primary School, Jalingo and LEA Primary School, Tudun Wada, Kaduna before proceeding to Saint Faith College (now GGSS) Kawo Kaduna where she studied between January 1973 and June 1977.
She attended the School of Basic Studies, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria from July 1977 to July 1979 for her preliminary studies.
Al-Hassan was appointed the first female Attorney General of her State, Taraba in 1997.
She was appointed the first female Chief Registrar of the High Court of the FCT in December 2003. She voluntarily retired from the FCT Judiciary as Chief Registrar on the 31st of December, 2009.
Aisha Al-hassan Mama Taraba Is Dead
