Nigeria’s first female senator, Franca Afegbua dies at 81
The first female Senator in Nigeria, Sen. Franca Afegbua has been confirmed dead at the age of 81.
Franca was said to have died in Benin City in a private hospital after battling an illness in the last few months.
Her death was confirmed by Kassim Afegbua, one of her younger brothers, a journalist who served as a Commissioner for information in Adams Oshiomhole administration in Edo State and currently a member of the Tinubu’s Presidential Campaign Council said his sister died on Sunday morning and that her body has been taken to the UBTH mortuary.
The late Franca Afegbua who was born in 1942 was elected on the platform of the defunct National Party of Nigeria (NPN) in 1983 as a senator that represented the then Bendel North Senatorial District.
She served in the upper Chamber of the National Assembly from October to December 1983 before the Buhari military coup brought the second republic to an end on December 31, 1983.
