Buba Marwa loses first wife Zainab

Hajiya Zainab Marwa, first wife of chairman of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) is dead.

She was aged 66.

The family announced her death in a statement on Saturday revealing that she died earlier in the day after a brief illness.

She is survived by her four children: Abubakar, Mohamed Jr, Mariam and Zainab, and 10 grandchildren as well as her siblings and aged mother and her husband.

The family said burial arrangement for the deceased would be announced at a later date.