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Breaking: Popular Nigerian Politician, Paul Unongo Is Dead

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Nigeria’s former Minister of Steel, Wantaregh Paul Unongo, has reportedly died.

Unongo served in the Second Republic. A family source told newsmen that the elder statesman died on Tuesday (today) afternoon at the age of 87.

JUST IN: Ex-Minister, Paul Unongo Is Dead

He explained while interacting with reporters in Makurdi, Benue State capital that Unongo had been ill for a while and eventually died today at a hospital in Jos, Plateau State, where he had been receiving treatment.

The source told Daily Trust that the Tiv Traditional Council would soon make a public announcement of the demise of the former Minister who was Chairman of the Northern Elders Forum.

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The late Unongo was born on September 26, 1935, and belonged to the Kwaghngise-Anure-Abera ancestry in Turan of Kwande Local Government Area in Benue.

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