Former Minister Of Finance Sen. Jubril Martins-Kuye Dies At Age 78

Former Minister of State for Finance and Minister of Commerce and Industry, Senator Jubril Martins-Kuye, has on Sunday passed on at the age of 78years-old. Jubril Martins-Kuye

The former Senator died at his Lagos home in Victoria Garden City, in the early hours of Sunday morning January 17, 2021. He was born August 1942 in Ago Iwoye, Ijebu constituency of Ogun State studied sociology at the University of Ibadan (1965-1968) and then Economics at the Harvard University Business School, graduating in 1983. He gained qualifications as a Chartered Accountant.

He was a senator in the Nigerian Third Republic. In 1999, he was appointed Minister of State for Finance Jubril Martins-Kuye during the first term of President Olusegun Obasanjo, serving until June 2003. In April 2010, he was appointed the Minister of Commerce and Industry by former President Goodluck Jonathan.

May his soul rest in peace, Amen.

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