Senator Uche Chukwumerije is dead, aged 75.
He was elected senator representing Abia North Senatorial District of Abia since 2003.
He will be remembered as minister of information in the dying days of the regime of former military president, General Ibrahim Babangida.
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He was also actively involved in the information directorate of the defunct Republic of Biafra during the Nigerian Civil War.
The late Chukwumerije was until his death on Sunday, chairman of the Senate Committee on Education.