Ex-Women Affairs Minister Pauline Tallen loses her only son

Richard, the only son of the immediate past Minister of Women Affairs, Dame Pauline Tallen, has passed away. Richard di£d on Sunday morning, October 6, at the Cedar Crest Hospital in Abuja, after being hospitalised, according to a statement by the family. 

The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the cause of his d£ was not immediately known but he was said to have been placed on oxygen in the hospital’s Intensive Care Unit (ICU) on Friday night.

The late Richard, who is a graduate of Computer Science from a United States university, was aged 42 and is survived by a wife and three children.