Mrs. Maryam Yalwaji Katagum, The Minister of State for Industry, Trade, and Investment, on Monday, collapsed while on an official assignment in her native Bauchi State, Njenje Media News reports.
The Minister was in Bauchi to launch an empowerment program at one of the shopping plazas when she suddenly slumped as she tried to deliver her speech at the ceremony.
She was immediately taken away by officials to the Trauma Center of the Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University Teaching Hospital (ATBUTH) for immediate medical attention.
The Minister, who was said to be in Bauchi since Saturday, featured in a live program on Globe FM station on Sunday and thereafter had other personal engagements which might have exhausted her before the official Monday program.
Eyewitness account revealed that since she arrived at the venue of the ceremony, the Minister had looked withdrawn touching her head occasionally as the program was going.
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“She just held her head and went down flat but for the quick intervention of aides and other officials at the venue who acted promptly and rushed her to the hospital,” the witness said.
