A former governor of Anambra State, Chukwuemeka Ezeife is dead.
The renowned economist was said to have died in Abuja on Thursday, December 14, after battling an undisclosed illness.
Here are a few quick things to know about former Anambra governor.
Ezeife was born at Igbo-Ukwu, Anambra state on November 20, 1937.
He was 84.
He did not attend secondary school, but taught himself through correspondence courses, qualifying for university admission.
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He obtained a BSc degree in Economics from the University College Ibadan and then attended Harvard University on a Rockefeller Foundation scholarship where he obtained a Masters and then a PhD degree in 1972.
He transferred Nnamdi Azikiwe University and Federal Polytechnic, Oko to the federal government, which helped ensure that they survived in the ensuing military regime.
During the Nigerian Fourth Republic Ezeife, who described himself as a social democrat, was appointed presidential Adviser on Political Matters to President Olusegun Obasanjo.
In February 2006 the Federal Capital Development Authority bulldozed his house in Abuja because the plot of land and those of adjacent houses had been acquired improperly.
In January 2010 he was among thousands who demonstrated in Awka calling for credible and violence-free governorship elections on February 6.
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