Ex-Nigerian Military President, General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida is pictured with his late wife, Maryam Babangida, as a young couple.
Born to Mr. Leonard Nwanonye Okogwu, an Igbo from Delta State and Asabe Halima Mohammed from Niger State, Maryam got married to Babangida shortly before her 21st birthday. She unfortunately died aged 61 from ovarian cancer on December 2009 in a Los Angeles, California hospital. (Photo: LIB)