A Super Permanent Secretary and one of Nigeria’s elder statesmen, Ahmed Joda is dead, Joda’s death was confirmed by his family members on Friday, at the age of 91 years at the federal medical center Yola, following a brief illness.
The elder statesman was an administrator, journalist and politician. He was a retired Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Industries, and rose to become one of the super Permanent Secretaries under the military government of Gen Yakubu Gowon (rtd.) in the 1970s.
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He served as chairman and board member of various companies including, the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, Nigerian Communications Commission, Pastoral Resolve, Chagoury Group, and the Flour Mills of Nigeria.
He was also a member of the 1988 Constituent Assembly which planned the constitutional transition of the Third Nigerian Republic.
In 1999, he was appointed in the committee to advise the Olusegun Obasanjo’s Presidency on Poverty Alleviation and in 2015, he headed the Muhammadu Buhari presidential transition.
Edited by Tunde Orebiyi
