Permanent Secretary at the Kwara State Ministry of Tertiary Education, Sidikat Bola Alaya is dead.
Hajia Alaya was said to have died in early hours of yesterday at Abuja.
The state Governor, AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq has expressed sadness at the death of the permanent secretary.
The governor in a statement by his media aide Rafiu Ajakaye said “it is with sadness but absolute trust in the judgment of our creator that we receive the passing of this great bureaucrat and serving Permanent Secretary in the Kwara State Ministry of Tertiary Education.
“The sudden death of this hard working and brilliant bureaucrat is a great depletion in the ranks of the state’s workforce, especially the leadership cadre of which she was. We send our heartfelt condolences to the family, friends, colleagues and all our dutiful civil servants in the state at this lonely moment.
“We beseech Allah, exalted is He, to grant Hajia Sidikat Alaya Al-jannah Firdaus and comfort her family. We all take solace in her being one of our best whose memory of commitment to duty and service to humanity will remain evergreen.”