The matriarch of the Awolowo dynasty, Hannah Idowu Dideolu Awolowo, is dead, her newspaper, the Nigerian Tribune, reports.
The report said she died some hours ago.
The chairperson of the African Newspapers of Nigeria, died 28 years after her husband, Obafemi Awolowo, who fondly described her as his jewel of inestimable value, passed on.
Mr. Awolowo, a widely respected politician and Yoruba leader, died in 1987.
Culled from Tribune and Premium Times.
