Former Minister for Women Affairs, Senator Aisha Jummai Alhassan, also known as Mama Taraba, has died at 61.
It was gathered that she died in a hospital in Cairo, Egypt of an undisclosed illness.
Popularly known as ‘Mama Taraba’, Alhassan was born on September 16, 1959 in Jalingo, Taraba State. A lawyer by training, she became the first female to be appointed Taraba State Attorney General and Commissioner of Justice. She was the first woman to be appointed as Secretary FCT judicial council and later appointed the Chief Registrar of the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja on 17 December 2003.
After she retired from service she went into business and later into politics.
She resigned as the Minister of Women Affairs of Nigeria on July 27, 2018.
