HID Awolowo is dead

The matriarch of the Awolowo family, Chief Hannah Idowu Dideolu Awolowo, is dead. She died on Saturday, September 19 shortly after a meeting with her family members, at the age of 99. Hannah Idowu Dideolu Awolowo popularly known as HID, was born to a modest family in Ikenne community of Ogun State in Nigeria. She is the widow of politician Obafemi Awolowo, who famously referred to her as his "jewel of inestimable value".