A former Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Dr Obadiah Mailafia, has died at the age of 64.
He reportedly died at an Abuja hospital on Sunday after a brief illness.
Deputy National Publicity Secretary of the Middle Belt Forum, Ms Ndi Kato, confirmed Mailafia died on Sunday morning at the National Hospital Abuja from a yet to be disclosed illness.
Obadiah Mailafia, born on December 24, 1956, in the village of Randa, Sanga Local Government Area of Kaduna State, served as the deputy governor of the CBN between 2005 and 2007.
He was a development economist, international polymath and the 2019 presidential candidate of the African Democratic Congress (ADC) and a former official of the African Development Bank Group and one-time.
He was also the Chief of Staff of the African, Caribbean and Pacific Group of States (ACP), the 79-nation multilateral development institution based in Brussels, Belgium.
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