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Ex-Labour and Productivity Minister, Hussaini Akwanga, is dead
A former Nigerian Minister of Labour and Productivity, Hussaini Zanwa Akwanga, has passed away on Friday after a protracted illness.
He was 77-year-old at the time of death.
The PUNCH reports that Akwanga died in his home town of Akwanga, the headquarters of Akwanga Local Government Area of Nasarawa State.
The Deputy Chairman of Akwanga LGA, Safiyanu Isa, confirmed the elder statesman’s death on Friday.
Isa added said that as soon as the former Minister was declared dead, he was taken for burial according to Islamic rites in his home town.
The elder statesman, who was a professional teacher, was made a minister by President Olusegun Obasanjo in the year 2003 but was later sacked by the President during a cabinet reshuffle.
In 2017, he was kidnapped on his farm in Kurmin Tagwaye village, near Akwanga, but was released two days later after paying a huge ransom to his abductors.
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