Maryam Babangida
A mụrụ Maryam Okogwu na 1 November 1948[1] na Asaba (Nke bụzi Delta State), ebe ọgara agụmakwụkwọ praịmarị. nne na nna ya bụ Hajiya Asabe Halima Mohammed si n'obodo bụzi Niger State, a Hausa, na Leonard Nwanonye Okogwu si na Asaba, bụ onye Igbo. Ọ mechara laa na Ugwu Hausa gaa Kaduna ede ọ gara Queen Amina's College Kaduna maka agụmakwụkwọ sekọndrị ya. She graduated as a secretary at the Federal Training Centre, Kaduna. Later she obtained a diploma in secretaryship Templeeti:Clarify from La Salle Extension University (Chicago, Illinois) and a Certificate in Computer Science from the NCR Institute in Lagos.[2][3]
Maryam Babangida (1 Nọvemba 1948 27 Disemba 2009) bụ nwunye General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida, onye bụ onye isi ala Naịjirịa site na nafọ nari iri itoolu iri asatọ na ise ruo nari iri itoolu iri itoolu na atọ.[4] A katọrọ di ya maka nrụrụ aka zuru oke n'oge ọchịchị ya.[5] E nyere ya otuto maka ịmepụta ọnọdụ nke First Lady nke Naịjirịa ma mee ka ọ bụrụ nke ya.[4]
Dika nwunye onye isiala Naijiria, ọ maputara atụmatụ dị iche iche nke gunyere imezi ndu umunwaanyi . The "Maryam Phenomenon" became a celebrity and "an icon of beauty, fashion and style", a position she retained after her husband's fall from power.[4][1]
Maryam Okogwu was born on 1 November 1948[6] in Asaba (present-day Delta State), where she attended her primary education. Her parents were Hajiya Asabe Halima Mohammed from the present Niger State, a Hausa, and Leonard Nwanonye Okogwu from Asaba, an Igbo. She later moved north to Kaduna where she attended Queen Amina's College Kaduna for her Secondary education. She graduated as a secretary at the Federal Training Centre, Kaduna. Later she obtained a diploma in secretaryship Templeeti:Clarify from La Salle Extension University (Chicago, Illinois) and a Certificate in Computer Science from the NCR Institute in Lagos.[2][7]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Maryam Babangida (Nov. 1948-Dec. 2009): The first of our first ladies (en-US). Vanguard News (2019-12-15). Retrieved on 2022-03-04.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Maryam Babangida. Pre-Adult Affairs Organisation. Archived from the original on November 19, 2009. Retrieved on 22 November 2009.
- ↑ Ikeddy Isiguzo (28 December 2009). Adieu, Country's First Lady. Retrieved on 18 April 2010.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Ademola Babalola (28 December 2009). Maryam's life and times of beauty, glamour and…cancer. The Punch. Archived from the original on December 29, 2009. Retrieved on 28 December 2009.
- ↑ "Shamed By Their Nation", Time Magazine, 6 September 1993
- ↑ Maryam Babangida (Nov. 1948-Dec. 2009): The first of our first ladies (en-US). Vanguard News (2019-12-15). Retrieved on 2022-03-04.
- ↑ Ikeddy Isiguzo (28 December 2009). Adieu, Country's First Lady. Retrieved on 18 April 2010.