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A former minister of state for power and steel in Nigeria, Oyekunle Oluwasanmi, is dead.
Oluwasanmi passed on Thursday, according to a statement issued by his family.
The later former Minister served as the chairman of the board of the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in 1992. He was also a board member of several companies including Kinley Securities Limited and Wise Health Services Limited.
In 1995, in recognition of his sterling administrative skills, he was appointed by the Federal Military Government as a member of the Committee for States and Local Governments Creation. He was part of a committee that advocated for the creation of Ekiti, Ebonyi, Nasarawa, Gombe, Zamfara and Bayelsa states in 1996.
The deceased was appointed minister of state for power and steel in 1997.
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