Mrs Hajara Alabelewe, wife of the Chairman of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), Kaduna State Council, Alhaji Abdulgafar Alabelewe, has died.

Naijaonpoint understands that Alabelewe passed away in the early hours of Sunday, around 1 am, at a hospital in Kaduna following a brief illness.

Confirming the incident, the NUJ chairman told journalists that his wife died after battling malaria.

Until her death, Mrs Alabelewe worked with the Department of State Services (DSS) in Kaduna.

According to the family, Janaza (funeral) prayers will be held at 2pm on Sunday at the Ansarul Islam Juma’at Mosque, Abakpa, by Lugard Roundabout, Kaduna.

Naijaonpoint reports that the development comes barely a week after the National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, Nentawe Yilwatda, lost his mother, Mama Lydia Yilwatda.

Mama Yilwatda passed away on Sunday morning at the Jos University Teaching Hospital at the age of 83.

The APC State Publicity Secretary in Plateau, Shittu Bamaiyi, confirmed the development in a statement issued in Jos.

He described the late Mama Lydia as “a devoted Christian, a virtuous woman leader, and a pillar of the Church of Christ in Nations.”

According to him, “The All Progressives Congress in Plateau State received with shock the sad news of the death of the mother of its National Chairman, Mama Lydia Yilwatda. Her death is not only a personal loss to the National Chairman but also to the entire APC family in Plateau State and the country at large.”

The statement noted that Mama Lydia, alongside her late husband, Reverend Toma Goshewe Yilwatda, contributed immensely to the growth of the Church of Christ in Nations in Borno, Yobe, Bauchi, and Plateau states.

Bamaiyi added that her demise was painful as she passed on at a time when her counsel and prayers were most needed by her family and the party’s national leader.

The APC described Mama Lydia’s life as one marked by faith and service, stressing that her accomplishments live on through her children.