PRESIDENT JONATHAN LOSES YOUNGER SISTER

Nancy Jonathan-Olei

President Goodluck Jonathan is bereaved. His younger sister, Mrs. Nancy Jonathan-Olei, 52, is dead. 

According to a statement by the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Dr. Reuben Abati, the deceased died on Sunday at a hospital in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State.

She was said to have died during a brief illness.

The three-paragraph statement read, “President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan  announces with deep sorrow, the passing away of his beloved junior sister, Mrs. Nancy Jonathan-Olei.

“Mrs. Jonathan-Olei passed away earlier today at a hospital in Yenagoa after a brief illness. She was  52 years old.

“Burial arrangements will be announced later by  the family.”