BY DAUD OLATUNJI

ABEOKUTA—Sheila, wife of renown education icon in Nigeria, late  Tai Solarin  has passed on at the age of 88 years.

Sheila, a British woman who was the  Proprietress of Mayflower college, Ikenne in Ogun State  died, yesterday at 4 :30 pm  at Babcock University Teaching Hospital, Ilishan Remo, Ogun State few months  after she was rushed to the hospital.

Vanguard gathered that, the octogenarian allegedly had a broken hip when she fell on her way to bed some months ago and was rushed to the hospital. Her sickness was said to have worsened as a result of weak bones due to old age.

It was gathered that, she underwent surgery before she died at the hospital in the presence of  her two children.