Ajibola Afonja, a former Minister of Labour and Chairman of First Bank Nigeria, has died at 82.
A family source said the Oyo prince passed away, on Sunday night, at the University College Hospital, Ibadan, Oyo State.
He was Chairman of Board of Directors of First Bank Plc, and was also appointed as Minister of Labour under the interim government of the late Earnest Shonekan.
Afonja was the chairman of integrated Dimensional System, and many other companies.
He attended Kingston University, Kingston-upon-Thames, Surrey, United Kingdom where he bagged a degree in Accounting in 1970.
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