Breaking: Dr. Obadiah Malaifia is dead

A former deputy governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Dr. Obadiah Mailafia is dead.

Mailafia who hails from Southern Kaduna died after protracted illness.

Source revealed that the 64-year-old former deputy governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) died at the National Hospital Abuja.

Obadiah Mailafia  was a Nigerian development economist, international polymath, central banker, statesman and the 2019 presidential candidate of the African Democratic Congress (ADC).

He  was a former official of the African Development Bank Group and one-time Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria.

He was also the Chief of Staff of the African, Carribean and Pacific Group of States, the 79-nation multilateral development institution is based in Brussels, Belgium.