Richard, the only son of the immediate past Minister of Women Affairs, Dame Pauline Tallen, is dead. Richard died yesterday morning at the Cedar Crest Hospital in Abuja, after being hospitalised, the family said in a statement.
The late Richard, who is a graduate of Computer Science from a United States university, was aged 42 and is survived by a wife and three children.
The cause of his death was not immediately known but he was said to have been placed on oxygen in the hospital’s Intensive Care Unit (ICU) on Friday night.
Also confirming the incident, his alma mater, the Vom Old Boys’ Association (VOBA), wrote on its social media platform that he died in Abuja after a brief illness. “On a very sad note, we regret to announce the sudden passing of our member, Mr Richard Adamu Tallen.
So really very sad. May God hive the family the strength to bear the loss