Late President Yar’adua’s mother dies in Katsina

Dada Yar’adua, mother of former President Umaru Yar’adua and late General Shehu Yar’adua, is dead, The PUNCH is reporting.

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The most widely read newspaper in Nigeria is further reporting that she died at the Katsina Teaching Hospital, Katsina on Monday evening.