Wasilat Obanikoro, mother of Nigeria’s former Minister of State for Defence, Musiliu Obanikoro, is dead.

News of the development was made available to the media on Saturday by Obanikoro who disclosed that his mother died in the early hours of the day at the old age of 95.

She was said to have been ill for a few weeks before passing on at her residence in Isale-Eko, Lagos.

Wasilat, a petty trader who played a key role in raising her son Musiliu after the demise of his father would be buried at 3:00 PM at Ikoyi Cemetery, Lagos, in accordance with the rites of Islam, which she practised until she passed on.