Just weeks before her 60th birthday, Obasanjo experienced complications after a routine cosmetic surgery and died. She was the wife of former president Olusegun Obasanjo.
Stella Obasanjo (14 November 1945 – 23 October 2005) was the First Lady of Nigeria from 1999 until her death. As significant as that position was, however, to confine her fame and impact to just that will be disrespectful and demeaning. President Olusegun Obasanjo, in the early hours of yesterday lost his wife and Nigeria's First Lady, Stella.
A request for compensation for the Nigerian government was also rejected. The country mourned openly for the first lady and those lost in the crash.
Two years later she obtained the higher school certificate. Had she been hospitalised in time, it is thought she might have survived her injuries. Stella Obasanjo (1945-2005) Stella Obasanjo, First lady of The Federal Republic of Nigeria.1945-2005. She sustained a punctured colon and lacerated liver and died two days after the surgery. Obasanjo will be remembered as the kind of first lady that countries desire to have as a figurehead of their nation.Born November 14, 1945, Stella Abebe met her husband, Olusegun Obasanjo, when he was a military officer. Stella Obasanjo : biography 14 November 1945 – 23 October 2005 Stella Obasanjo (14 November 1945 – 23 October 2005) was the First Lady of Nigeria from 1999 until her death.
She enrolled at St. Theresa’s College, where she obtained her West African School Certificate in 1964 with grade one. STELLA OBASANJO, the late former First Lady died on Sunday, October 23, 2005, in Spain after a failed tummy tuck surgery.