Breaking: Former CBN chief, Dr Obadiah Mailafia is dead

The Ex-deputy governor of the Central Bank, Dr Obadiah Mailafia has been reported dead by a family source.

Dr Obadiah Mailafia who was a Nigerian economist functioned as the deputy governor of Nigeria’s Apex Bank.

The 64-year-old Mr Mailafia died on Sunday morning at the National Hospital, Abuja. He was confined dead by a medical doctor at the nation’s leading public health facility

Mr Mailafia hailed from Randa, in the Christian-dominated Southern Kaduna, and taught economics at different institutions.

Malilafia spent the last part of his life championing the solution to the prolonged killings in Southern Kaduna, which had been associated with armed herders of the Fulani extraction.

The ex-, deputy governor became a vanguard pundit of President Muhammadu Buhari and security agents as part of his advocacy and was lately invited by the State Security Service to clarify some of his on-air statements about intentional trouble across the country.

Details shortly…