Late Dele Giwa's mum dies at 87

Madam Elekiya Ayisat Giwa, mother of late Editor in Chief of Newswatch magazine is dead.
She was aged  87.
Madam  Giwa who   lived with her last daughter,  Mrs Abibat Ronke Aboaba in Ikorodu Lagos, passed on at about 5:00am this morning at Aruna Ogun Hospital, Ikorodu, Lagos after a brief illness.
Dele Giwa who  was assassinated with a parcel bomb during the regime of General Ibrahim Babangida on October 19, 1986.
“ Dele was to me a cloth. You don’t expect an  unclad woman to go dancing in the market place if she is sane,” she  was quoted as saying, years after the demise of her famous son.
The octogenarian also told sympathizers that  she had left,  in the hands of God, circumstances surrounding the death of her son.
 Source: National Mirror
 

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