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Plans to fly back to Jalingo, the capital of Taraba State, the remains of the late former Minister of Women Affairs, Senator Aisha Jumai Alhassan, have been concluded.
DAILY POST gathered that the remains of the former governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the 2015 general election, who died on Friday in Egypt is due to be flown in to the state tomorrow for internment.
Her media aide, Bala Muhammed, who made this known in a chat with our correspondent, said the corpse of late Aisha who is fondly called Mama Taraba, will arrive in Jalingo on Sunday for burial.
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The Speaker of the Taraba State House of Assembly, Joseph Albasu Kunini, has commiserated with the people Bandawa community in Karim Lamido Local Government Council of the state over the last Monday fire disaster which did not only destroy properties worth millions of naira, but also claimed the lives of two persons.
Represented by the National President of Bakula Kwararafa Cultural Development Association, Prof. Nick Namessan, at the Palace of the District Head of Bandawa, Kuh Shoh, Shawu Shariah, the Speaker stated that he was deeply saddened and shocked by the level of destruction of houses, property and human lives following the fire disaster.
Mama Taraba: Ishaku reacts to death of ex-minister
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Governor Darius Dickson Ishaku of Taraba State, has joined the leagues of mourners lamenting the death of the former Minister of Women Affairs, Senator Aisha Jumai Alhassan.
Fondly called ‘Mama Taraba’, Aisha who has been in and out of hospital, on Friday gave up the ghost in Cairo, the capital Egypt.
In a statement made available to newsmen on Friday by the governor through his Special Senior Adviser on Media and Publicity, Bala Dan Abu, Ishiaku said he received “with deep shock the news of the death of Senator Aisha Jumai Alhassan.”