Aisha Jummai Al-Hassan, popularly
known as Mama Taraba is dead, sources confirmed to The PUNCH on Friday.
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, 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 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.
