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Former Deputy Senate President, Ibrahim Mantu, dies at 74

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Former Deputy Senate President, Ibrahim Mantu, dies at 74

Late Ibrahim Mantu

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Ex-Deputy President of the Nigerian Senate, Ibrahim Mantu, on Tuesday morning passed on at the age of 74.

Premium Times reports a family source confirmed that Mr Mantu died on Tuesday at a private hospital in Abuja at midnight after a few days of admission.

The source said the funeral prayer would hold later on Tuesday at Apo legislative mosque in Abuja.

The late Mr Mantu was born in Chanso village, Gindiri District, Mangu Local Government Area of Plateau State on February 16, 1947. He attended the Gindiri Demonstration Primary School from 1955 – 1961 and obtained the First School Leaving Certificate.

He worked with the Public Works Department (PWD) Jos, as a Stores Requisition Clerk from 1962 – 1963 before proceeding to the Gindiri Teachers College in 1964. On leaving Gindiri in 1967, he joined the Nigerian Tobacco Company, Zaria in 1968 as a Quality Checker.

He moved to BEAM, a division of UAC Nigeria as a Kalamazoo Specialist Salesman in 1971.

Mr Mantu studied on his own to obtain O’ level GCE and Diploma in Professional Salesmanship which facilitated his movement to John Holt Ltd. in 1973 as a Trainee-Manager. He was later confirmed as a substantive Manager.

Mr Mantu holds a B.A. (Hons.) degree in Political Science from the Washington International University. He was awarded Honourary Doctorate Degrees of Federal University of Agriculture, Makurdi, University of Jos, Madonna University, Okija and University of Applied Sciences and Management Port Novo, Benin Republic.

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