Alagbo Graham Douglas, a former Minster of Labour and Productivity, is dead.
This was revealed by a close associate, who said Douglas died in Abuja in the early hours of Monday.
The deceased was a two-time Minister and a public relations expert.
A Kalabari High Chief in Rivers where the late minister hailed from, Chief Ngo Martins Yellowe, also confirmed the death of the former Minister to our reporter in Port Harcourt, Rivers capital.
Nigerian Minister Is Dead
Yellowe, a veteran journalist, said the late Minster had been sick for some time.
He was the Minister of Social Development and Aviation during the Ibrahim Babangida administration and served as Minister of Culture and Tourism, as well as that of Labour, Employment and Productivity under ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo.
In an interview he granted a national newspaper, the two time Minister said: “I have passed through the valley of shadow of death. I think I am luckier than most of my brothers because nobody in my family has ever reached the age of 80. I went through several challenges of life – bitter ones, sometimes very close to death, yet God saved me and put me on the path of the living. I am feeling very elated.”