The matriarch of the
Awolowo family, Chief Hannah Idowu Dideolu Awolowo, HID, is dead. She passed
away today19th September, 2015, aged 99 years.
In addition
to being the First Lady of the old Western Region, she was also a very
successful businesswoman and the first Nigerian to import lace materials and
other textiles into Nigeria in the 1950s.
HID was until her death
the chairman of Nigeria’s foremost newspaper, Nigerian Tribune.
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