Aisha Jummai Al-Hassan, popularly known as Mama Taraba is
dead.
She died at 61 in Cairo, Egypt.
“Mama (Al-Hassan) died in a hospital today in Cairo. We will
miss her,” a former aide to Al-Hassan, who pleaded anonymity, said on the
telephone.
Officials of the Peoples Democratic Party in Taraba State
also confirmed her death to one of our correspondents.
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, Muhammadu Buhari 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 started work as a Magistrate Grade II in April
1988 in the Kaduna State Judiciary.
She was admitted to the Fijian Bar and enrolled as a
Barrister and Solicitor of the High Court of Fiji in 1991. While she was in
Fiji, her services were transferred from Kaduna State Judiciary to FCT
Judiciary in 1991 as Magistrate Grade I.
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.
Details later…
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