Former President Yar’Adua’s mother dies at 102
Dada Yar’Adua, the mother of former President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua, has died.
She was reported dead on Monday.
She was aged 102.
She died at the Federal Teaching Hospital, Kastina, after a brief illness.
Another of her sons is the chairman of the Senate Committee on Army, Abdulaziz Musa Yar’adua.
The former president died in 2010 at the age of 58.
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