Buhari loses first daughter to sickle cell

Zulai, the first daughter of former  Head of State and a former presidential candidate, Maj-Gen Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), is dead.
She died on Thursday evening after delivering a baby in Nasara Hospital,Marafa Estate in Kaduna.
Nigerians only got to know the 40-year-old lady after her death.
Zulaiha, who was  born on December 5, 1972, studied at the Department of Economics Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria.
She left behind Amira, Moh’d and the two-day-old baby girl.
The former Federal Capital Territory Minister, Nasir el-rufai, said: “May the soul of Zulaihatu, the eldest daughter of General Muhammadu Buhari, rest in perfect peace.”
The spokesman for the Congress for Progressive Change, Rotimi Fashakin, described the death as sad.
The Punch.