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.