Ex-CBN deputy Gov Obadiah Mailafia is dead
Ex-CBN deputy Gov Obadiah Mailafia is dead
Ex-CBN deputy Gov Obadiah Mailafia is dead
A former Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Dr Obadiah Mailafia, has passed on at the age of 64.
Mailafia has died at midnight after a brief illness.
The family lawyer, Mr Yakubu Bawa, confirmed the news to Channels TV on Sunday morning.
He said Mailafia died in the early hours of the day at his residence in Jos, the Plateau State capital after a brief illness.
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According to Yakubu who is the Chairman of the Plateau State chapter of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), Mailafia’s death followed a brief illness.
The former deputy governor, who was the Presidential candidate of the African Democratic Congress in the 2019 election, was a known government critic and had advocated for public sector and exchange rate reforms.
Mailafia was born on 24 December 1956, in the Sanga Local Government Area (LGA), of Kaduna State his father Baba Mailafia Gambo Galadima, an evangelist with the Evangelical Reformed Church of Central Nigeria.
He later graduated top of his class at Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, in 1978 with a B.Sc.
Honours Social Sciences degree (Politics, Economics, and Sociology). He also has an M.Sc. from the same institution.
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He subsequently won a French Government Scholarship to France, where he earned a Certificate in French Language and Civilisation from the University of Clermont-Ferrand in 1985.
Ex-CBN deputy Gov Obadiah Mailafia is dead..
