A former First Lady, Mrs. Maryam Babangida is dead. She died earlier today in a United States hospital where she had been undergong treatment for cancer. She was the glamorous wife of former President Ibrahim Babangida. He got married to the former president (then a major on the Biafran/Nigerian civil warfront) on September 6, 1969 many years before he became head of state and they had four children: 2 boys, and two girls namely, Mohammed, Aminu, Aisha and Halima. Maryam was born in...- full story