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BREAKING: Ex-NCC Chairman, Biyi Durojaiye has died
 
By: Abara Blessing Oluchi
Tue, 24 Aug 2021   ||   Nigeria,
 

TUESDAY-  24th August, 2021: Olabiyi Durojaiye, immediate past Chairman of Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), is dead.

He died in the wee hours of Tuesday in Lagos while receiving medical care for an undisclosed illness.

In 1999, Durojaiye was elected Ogun East Senator on the Alliance for Democracy (AD) platform.

The deceased will be remembered for his struggle during the days of National Democratic Coalition (NADECO).

Born in 1933, Durojaiye was a legal practitioner and worked for 35 years in the public sector.

He was a Director in the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) as well as the Nigerian Security Printing and Minting Plc.

Durojaiye’s wife, Helen Olufunso Adejoke, died on June 6, 2009.

 

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