A former Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Dr. Obadiah Mailafia, is dead.
According to Vanguard newspaper, where the Economist was a columnist until his death, he died at the National Hospital, Abuja.
Mailafia was 64 years old.
He was born on December 24, 1956.
Wikipedia described him as Nigerian Development Economist, international polymath, central banker, statesman and 2019 presidential candidate of the African Democratic Congress.
He was a former official of the Africa Development Bank Group.
He was also the Chief of Staff of the African, Caribbean and Pacific Group of States, the 79-nation multilateral development institution based in Brussels, Belgium.
Mailafia was born in Randa, Sanga Local Government Area of Kaduna State.
His father, Baba Mailafia Gambo Galadima, was an evangelist with the Evangelical Reformed Church of Central Nigeria.
Mailafia was raised as a missionary child in a multiracial environment.
His parents later transferred to Murya, Lafia in Nasarawa State, where he grew up.
He started his elementary education at Musha Sudan United Mission School.
He was there from 1964 to 1969 and proceeded to Mada Hills Secondary School, Akwanga from 1970 to 1974.
He was a keen sportsman, debater and scholar, winning the Commissioner of Education’s Award as the most outstanding pupil of the graduating class of 1974.
For his ‘A’ Levels, he attended the School of Basic Studies at Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria between 1974 and 1975.
He later proceed and graduated top of his class at Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria in 1978 with a B.Sc. Honours Social Sciences degree (Politics, Economics and Sociology).
He also has a M.Sc. from the same institution.
He subsequently won a French Government Scholarship to France, where he earned a Certificate in French Language and Civilization from the University of Clermont-Ferrand in 1985.
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