A former Minister of Power and Steel in the Second Republic, Paul Unongo, is dead.
Unongo died Tuesday morning in Jos, the Plateau State capital at the age of 87.
The former Chairman of the Northern Elders Forum, NEF, has been battling with ill-health lately.
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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