Former Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, Obadiah Mailafiya is dead.
GIOTV reports that Obadiah was a Nigerian economist who also served as deputy governor of the Central Bank.
He died on Sunday morning at the of 64 at the National Hospital, Abuja. He was certified dead by a medical doctor in the hospital.
Mr Mailafia hailed from Randa, in the Christian-dominated Southern Kaduna, and taught economics at different institutions.
He spent the latter part of his years advocating for a solution to the protracted killings in Southern Kaduna, which had been linked to armed herdsmen of Fulani origin.
He became a frontline critic of President Muhammadu Buhari and security agencies as part of his advocacy and was recently invited by the State Security Service to explain some of his on-air comments about deliberate violence across the country.
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