Maryam Bagangida Dies at 61

Date: 27-12-2009 2:31 pm (14 years ago) | Author: richard anyanwu
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Former first lady and chairperson of Better Life for Rural Women, Maryam Bagangida, has died after a prolonged battle with an illness believed to be cancer (Ovarian) at the age of 61. 
 
She was the glamorous wife of former President Ibrahim Babangida.
He got married to the former president (then a major on the Biafran/Nigerian civil warfront) on September 6, 1969 many years before he became head of state and they had four children: 2 boys, and two girls namely, Mohammed, Aminu, Aisha and Halima.
 
Maryam was born in November, 1948 in her hometown Asaba where she got early education before proceeding to Queen Amina's College Kaduna for her Secondary education.
 
She finished as a Secretary at the Federal Training Centre, Kaduna and later got a secretarial diploma from from Laselle University, Chicago, USA.
 
Apart from a short stop at a vocation in her line of training, before and shortly after marriage, Mrs. Babangida remained a full time housewife, establishing and nurturing the home front until the youngest had fairly come of age.
 
Mrs. Babangida, is considered to be one of the women who have made the greatest impact on the African continent with her transformation from being a house wife to an active first lady with a programme called Better Life for Rural Women.

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may her soul live in peace.  she has really touch lives during her service to humanity.
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