Former Minister of Industries Mohammed Yahaya passes on

Air Vice Marshal Mohammed Yahaya, a one-time Minister of Industries under the former military dictator, Ibrahim Babangida is dead.

It was gathered that AVM Yahaya died on last night, according to the The Nation.

Muhammed was born to Yahaya Okwudo’s family of Ipole, Adoka extract (a descendant of Ijah, a popular women leader and rich trader in the pre-colonial era).

He rose to the rank of an AVN in the air force and was Minister of Transport during IBB’s regime.

He participated in the Arizona Technical Instructors’ course in the United States Air Force, 1967-1968; Upper Iowa State University, USA; Royal Air Force, 1972; National Institute of Policy and Strategic Studies, NIPSS, Kuru, 1979-1980. He was commissioned a pilot and officer in 1967; officer commanding, Radar,

Nigeria Air Force, Kano, 1969; staff officer engineer, NAF Headquarters, Lagos, 1970; defence adviser, Nigerian Embassy, Moscow, USSR, 1976-1978; Air officer commanding, Tactical Command, NAF, Makurdi, 1984-1988.

AVM Yahaya was appointed the sole administrator, Federal Government Mass Transit Programme, 1988-1989; Minister Of Industries, 1989.

A source tells the newspaper that his corpse will arrive Makurdi today on an Air Force plane from where they will proceed to Adoka, Otukpo LGA of Benue State for burial.

 

Source: The Nation

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