A former trustee and
Executive Secretary of the defunct Petroleum Trust Fund (PTF) and one-time
Commissioner for Education in the old Bendel State, Chief Tayo Akpata, 83, is
dead.
Chief Akpata passed
away at his residence in Ikoyi, Lagos, on Monday morning.
A press statement
from the family confirmed the death of Chief Akpata, who was, until his death,
the Ima of Benin.
The deceased was a
one-time chairman of Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA); Pipeline and Products
Marketing Company (PPMC), a subsidiary of Nigerian National Petroleum
Corporation (NNPC), as well as the chairman of Siemens Nigeria.
He is survived by his
wife, Olabisi, children and grandchildren.
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