Dr Obadiah Mailafiah passes on!
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The former deputy governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria,(CBN) Dr. Obadiah Mailafia.
has knick the bucket.
Dr Obadiah die in the early hours of Sunday at the Abuja national hospital after a protracted illness. Dr.Mailafia is foremost Nigerian economist who served as deputy governor of Nigeria’s central bank during the Ebere Jonathan administration.
The Peoples Gazette whose break the news learnt from family sources Mailafia 64, died on Sunday morning at the National Hospital, Abuja.
He was certified dead by a medical doctor at the nation’s foremost public health facility, The Gazette learnt.
Mr Mailafia hailed from Randa, in the Christian-dominated Southern Kaduna, and taught economics at different institutions.
He spent the latter part of his years advocating for a solution to the protracted killings in Southern Kaduna, which had been linked to armed herdsmen of Fulani origin.
He became a frontline critic of President Muhammadu Buhari and security agencies as part of his advocacy and was recently invited by the State Security Service to explain some of his on-air comments about deliberate violence across the country as narrated by the People Gazette
