Information just reaching the Association of Model Islamic Schools (AMIS) secretariat is that Hajia Aisha Bridget Lemu, wife of renowned Islamic scholar Sheikh Ahmed Lemu who is also AMIS Grand Patron is dead.
According to Nurudeen Ahmed Lemu, the eldest son of the deceased, Aisha died today Saturday 5th January 2018 (28th Rabiul Awwal 1440AH) after a brief illness at the age of 79 at the family house in Minna, Niger State.

The late Aisha, who converted to Islam in 1961 and married her husband in April 1968, was a teacher at the School for Arabic Studies, Kano in 1966, Principal, Government Girls College, Sokoto in 1969 and Women Teachers College (WTC) Minna between 1976 and 1978.

Together with her husband, she founded the Islamic Education Trust (IET). She also founded the Federation of Muslim Women Associations in Nigeria (FOMWAN) in 1985. Hajia Aisha is a grand patron of AMIS until her demise.

The deceased has published many Islamic books for junior and senior secondary schools, on the role of women and marriage, the ideal Muslim wife and husband as well as animals in Islam among numerous others.

She is survived by her husband, Sheikh Ahmed Lemu and children amongst them is Nuruddeen A. Lemu, also a frontline Islamic Scholar.

According to Nurudeen the deceased would be buried today.

“Inna lillahi wa inna ilayhi raji’un”.