Just In: Jubril Martins-Kuye, Ex-minister Dies At 78

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By Abiola Olawale 

Alhaji Jubril Martins-Kuye, a former Nigerian Minister of Commerce and Industry is dead. He was aged 78.

Martins-Kuye, also a former Minister of Finance died in his hometown-Ago-Iwoye, Ogun State on Sunday. The cause of his death was not known as at the moment of filing this report.

The late eminent politician will be buried on Sunday according to Islamic rites. He is succeeded by two wives and children.

It would be recalled that Martins-Kuye, 78, was a Nigerian politician. He was born in Ago-Iwoye, Ijebu constituency of Ogun State.

He graduated from the department of Sociology, in 1968, at the University of Ibadan (UI). He then went on to study Economics at the Harvard University Business School and graduated in 1983.

Martins-Kuye started his politics career in the Social Democratic Party (SDP). He became a senator of the Nigerian Third republic in 1993. He contested in the Ogun State gubernatorial election of 1999 under the Peoples Democratic Party(PDP), but didn’t win. He was later appointed as the Minister of State for Finance in June 1999 by the administration of the then President of Nigeria, Olusegun Obasanjo. He held the position until 2003.

Martins-Kuye later became the Minister of Commerce and Industry in 2010, under the administration of the then acting President of Nigeria, Goodluck Jonathan.

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