Breaking: Former CBN Deputy Governor, Obadiah Mailafia Is Dead
Former Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, and public intellectual, Dr Obadiah Mailafia is dead.
Reports say that he died at the National Hospital Abuja in the early hours of Sunday, September, 19, 2021
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 December 24, 1956, in the Sanga Local Government Area of Kaduna State.
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.
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.
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