Buhari loses sister in-law

A sister-in-law to President Muhammadu Buhari, Hajiya Aisha Mamman, is dead. Mamman, 75, died yesterday. Information Officer of Daura Local Government Area in Katsina State, Alhaji Salisu Haro, made the disclosure in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Daura.

He said the deceased died at 11:30a.m. at the Federal Medical Center in Katsina during a brief illness. The deceased was wife of the late Alhaji Mamman Danbaffale, elder brother to Buhari.

Mamman was survived by eight children, including Fatihu Mamman, an employee of Nigerian Communications Commission and Hajiya Rbiya Mamman, a nutrition officer with the Katsina State government. The deceased had since been buried in Daura in accordance with Islamic injunction.