A renown journalist and Northern Operations Editor of The Nation Newspapers, Alhaji Yussuf Ali, has lost his mother. Ali, according to a post on his facebook page, said his mother died at the age of 89.
Ali, while announcing the death of his mother wrote, “Inna lillahi wa inna ilayhi raji’un. I am grateful that Allah has called my mother, Hajiya Hawau Yusuf to eternal glory @89, a few months short of 90 years. May Allah grant my irreplaceable mum Aljanna Firdaus. Amin Thuma Amin.”
According to him, she has since been buried according to Islamic rites. Saying he became emotional moment his mother was being lowered into her grave, he expressed gratitude to God because “the story was not opposite.” He went further in recalling the past years of struggle, “We struggled together, I am consoled you enjoyed the fruits of your labour. May Allah grant Hajiya Hawau Yusuf Aljanna Firdaus.”