Hajiya Zainab Garba, wife of the Niger State deputy governor, Comrade Yakubu Garba, is dead.

She died on Tuesday afternoon after a brief illness at a government hospital in Minna, the state capital.

The state’s governor, Mohammed Umaru Bago, in a statement, by the Chief Press Secretary, Bologi Ibrahim, confirmed the development and described the death of Hajia Zainab as a great loss to the State.