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Former CBN Deputy Gov, Obadiah Mailafia Dies at 64

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

He was aged 64.

NewsmakersNG learnt that he died at midnight after a brief illness.

The former deputy governor, who

Mailafia was the Presidential candidate of the African Democratic Congress in the 2019 election.

He was a known critic of the current government 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 graduated top of his class at Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, in 1978 with a B.Sc. Honours degree in Social Sciences (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.

Mailafia later proceeded to the United Kingdom as a Foreign and Commonwealth Office Scholar at Oriel College, earning a DPhil from the University of Oxford in 1995.

He joined partisan politics in 2018 amid the rising killings in Southern Kaduna.

He remained an ardent government critic and once alleged that a northern governor was a Boko Haram commander.

This got him into trouble with the federal government and also earned him multiple invitations by security agencies.

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