President Muhammadu Buhari’s extended family has been struck by the loss of two senior members who died within a few hours of one another.
Halima Dauda who was buried in Daura on Saturday morning is the president’s niece and younger sister to his close associate and nephew, Mamman Daura.
She died at about the age of 56, leaving behind 10 children, four of them male and six female including one of President Buhari’s personal assistants, Mohammed Sabi’u Tunde.
The burial, according to Garba Shehu, the spokesperson to the president, was attended by a federal government delegation led by the Chief of Staff to the President, Abba Kyari.
