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Former CBN Deputy Gov. Obadiah Mailafia is dead

A former Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Obadiah Mailafia, is dead.

Report says the 64-year-old renowned banker died at the National Hospital Abuja at the age of 65.

He was a Nigerian development economist, international polymath, central banker, statesman and the 2019 Nigeria Presidential election Candidate of African Democratic Congress (ADC) and a former official of the African Development Bank Group

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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