The
matriarch of the Awolowo family, Chief Hannah Idowu Dideolu Awolowo, is dead.
Mama, as
she is fondly called by many, died on Saturday.
She was
99.
She
would have turned 100 on November 25 this year.
First
Weekly is reporting that Awolowo died shortly after a meeting on Saturday with
her family members.
Yeye
Oodua, as she is also popularly known, was said to have been a part of the
meeting for the planning of her 100th birthday.
She was
until her death the chairman of Nigeria’s foremost newspaper, Nigerian Tribune.
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