Nigeria’s ex-President Shehu Shagari’s wife dies
By OUR REPORTER, Sokoto
Hajiya Sutura Shehu Shagari, the last surviving wife of Nigeria’s former President, Alhaji Shehu Shagari, has passed away at the age of 89.
Her death was announced on Monday November 10, 2025 in a statement issued by the head of the Shagari family, Capt. Muhammad Bala Shagari (Rtd).
She died seven years after her husband’s demise in an Abuja hospital on Friday December 28, 2018.
Shagari revealed that Hajia Sutura died around 3 p.m. after a prolonged illness.
According to the statement, the family described the late matriarch as “an embodiment of grace, humility, and quiet strength — a devoted mother, grandmother, and pillar of the family who lived a life defined by dignity and compassion.”
It added that her passing was “deeply felt by the entire Shagari family and all who knew her.”
The statement has in the meantime said that funeral arrangements of the former first lady will be announced in due course. “May her gentle soul rest in eternal peace,” it concluded.
Hajiya Sutura Shehu Shagari was the widow of Alhaji Shehu Usman Aliyu Shagari, Nigeria’s first democratically elected Executive President, who served between October 1, 1979 to December 31, 1983 under the National Party of Nigeria (NPN).
