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Kogi speaker’s wife dies in Lagos

Mrs Kolawole was 50-years and died after a brief illness.

• December 5, 2021
Mathew Kolawole and Mrs Esther Kolawole
Mathew Kolawole and Mrs Esther Kolawole

The wife of the Speaker of Kogi House of Assembly, Esther Zainab Kolawole, is dead.

Femi Olugbemi, spokesman to the speaker, Matthew Kolawole, announced this in a statement on Sunday.

He said the deceased died in the early hours of Sunday in a Lagos state hospital.

The statement stated that Mrs Kolawole was 50-years and died after a brief illness.

According to him, the burial arrangements will be announced later.

He said she is survived by her husband, children, siblings and an aged mother.

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