A prominent Hausa music diva, Magajiya Dambatta, has dead at the age of 86.
She died after a brief illness at her home in Dambatta on Friday evening.
In December 2018, an appeal fund to support the ace singer was launched by the Editor-in-Chief of DAILY NIGERIAN newspaper, Jaafar Jaafar; a development worker, Musa Abdullahi Sufi; a civil servant, Ibrahim Sanyi-Sanyi and; a medical doctor, Ibrahim Musa.
She got over N5m in the appeal fund, which was used to build a modest house for her and take care of her subsistence.
Magajiya Ɗambatta, one of the Hausa singers who rose to stardom in the 1970s to 1980s, has been forgotten, until Mr Jaafar reported her story.
The old singer, who was blind, had been left in a lurch and at the mercy of alms-begging at Makoda in Kano State.