Meet The 5 Most Beautiful
Nigerian First Ladies
Nigeria has had 13 heads
of state with about the same number of first ladies. Some however have been
very pleasing to the eyes. Here’s our run down of the
most beautiful first ladies Nigeria has had in no particular order.
Maryam Babanginda
Maryam was the wife of
General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida, who was Nigeria‘s
head of state from 1985 to 1993. As first lady, she launched many
programmes to improve the life of women.
On 6 September 1969, shortly
before her 21st birthday, she married Major Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida. They
had four children, boys Mohammed and Aminu, and two girls, Aisha and Halima.
The “Maryam
Phenomenon” became a celebrity and a “an
icon of beauty, fashion and style”, a position she
retained after her husband’s fall from power.
She died on the 27th of December 2009 (aged 61) in Los
Angeles, California, U.S.A.
Turai Yar’Adua
Turai is the widow of
former Nigerian President and former Katsina
StateGovernor Umaru Musa Yar’Adua. She served as
the First Lady of Nigeria from 2007 until the death of her husband,
President Yar’Adua, on May 5, 2010.
Turai married Umaru Yar’Adua
in 1975, and they have five daughters and two sons. One of their
daughters, Zainab, is married to Usman Saidu Nasamu
Dakingari, Governor of Kebbi State.
Stella Obasanjo
Stella was the First
Lady of Nigeria from 1999 until her death. She was the wife of
former president Olusegun Obasanjo. She died while undergoing
elective liposuction in an exclusive clinic in Spain.
She was admitted to
the University of Ife now (Obafemi Awolwo University), Ile-Ife, for a
bachelor’s degree in English, attending from 1967 to 1969. In
1969 she transferred to the UK to complete her studies, this time round, in
insurance, in London and Edinburgh, Scotland, from 1970 to 1974.
As first Lady of Nigeria, she
joined the Campaign Against Female Genital Mutilation and on 6
February 2003, she declared the day the International Day of Zero
Tolerance to Female Genital Mutilation.
Hajiya Asiya Buhari
Not much is known about
General Buhari’s wife but the pretty former first lady came out
recently to condemn the bomb attack on her husband.
Maryam Abacha
Maryam (born 4 March
1947, Kaduna) is the widow of Sani Abacha serving as first
lady from 1993 to 1998. Maryam and Sani Abacha had three daughters
and six sons. Maryam Abacha’s eldest surviving
son is Mohammed Abacha.
Maryam Abacha
founded National Hospital Abuja (originally National Hospital For
Women And Children)
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