AVM Mohammed Yahaya, a one-time
Minister of Industries under former military dictator, Ibrahim Babangida is
dead.
We gathered that AVM
Yahaya passed on last night.
Yahaya 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 Air
Vice Marshall and 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 as 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 sole
administrator, Federal Government Mass Transit Programme, 1988-1989; Minister
Of Industries, 1989.
A source hinted this reporter
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.
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