Joanna Usman Musa, mother of the National Secretary of the Nigeria Union of Journalists, Shuaibu Leman, has passed away on Thursday.
Daughter of the deceased, Hajara Leman, told the News Agency of Nigeria that their mother died in Bauchi at the age of 77.
She said late Musa, a retired civil servant, battled with cancer of the liver, adding that burial arrangement would be announced later.
She left behind, six children and eight grandchildren, with the NUJ National Secretary as the eldest and Hajara Leman of the News Agency of Nigeria, Gombe office, as the youngest of her siblings.
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