Ms Onyeka Onwenu’s successor, the Acting Director-General, Alhaji Abdulmalik Dauda at the National Centre for Women Development, Abuja, has been declared dead
The Protocol Officer to the director-general, Mr Mohammed Aliyu, said Dauda died on Friday in an auto crash along Abuja-Kaduna expressway while returning from an official assignment.
The deceased took over from Ms Onyeka Onwenu on February 16, 2016, following the removal of 26 heads of government agencies and parastatals.
Born on Aug. 27, 1959, in Niger state, Dauda was survived by two wives and five children.
Aliyu added that the remains of Dauda had been buried according to Islamic rites in his home town in Niger.
