Nigeria, Dec. 5 -- A former Special Adviser to the President on Women Affairs under the administration of former President Olusegun Obasanjo, Titilayo Ajanaku, has died.

The death of Mrs Ajanaku was confirmed by her son in a telephone interview with Mr Obasanjo in the early hours of Thursday, the former president said.

Mrs Ajanaku, according to a family source, died in the early hours of Thursday at the age of 73 years. She breathed her last at her Ibara Housing residence, Abeokuta, Ogun State capital after a long battle with an undisclosed illness.

She was a founding member of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and former chairman of Abeokuta Local Government, becoming the first woman to be elected as a local government chairman in Ni...