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Former Minister of State for Education and one-time national president of Nigerian Association of Authors, Professor Jerry Agada is dead.
Agada died at the age of 68.
A source told our correspondent that Agada who is chairman, Benue State Civil Service Commission died at Federal Medical Hospital, Makurdi in the early hours of Tuesday.
The source added that he had been hospitalized for the past one week before he died around 08:00 am Tuesday.
The family is yet to issue any statement but a close family source confirmed his death.
The state Information Commissioner and spokesperson for the State action committee on COVID-19, Mrs Ngunan Adingi confirmed the death of the former minister, but said she was yet to confirm the cause of his death.
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By Peter Duru, Makurdi
Chairman Benue State Civil Service Commission and former Minister of State for Education, Prof. Jerry Agada is dead.
Prof. Agada an educationist and author died Tuesday morning at the Federal Medical Centre, FMC, Makurdi.
Though no official statement has been issued by the family of the former President of Association of Nigeria Author, ANA, and Chairman, Governing Board of the National Commission for College of Education, NCCE, but a close family source disclosed that he took ill two weeks ago and was on admission when he passed on.