A former Minister of Aviation, Alabo Graham-Douglas, who served under the regime of General Ibrahim Babangida in 1999, is dead.<\/p>\n
He was said to have died at a private hospital in Abuja on Monday at the age of 82.<\/span><\/p>\n Graham-Douglas was appointed Minister of Labour and Productivity in 1999.<\/span><\/p>\n He also served in the administration of former President Olusegun Obasanjo as Minister of Tourism.<\/span><\/p>\n The Rivers State indigene was born on May 8, 1939, in Abonnema in the Akuku-Toro Local Government Area.<\/span><\/p>\n Graham-Douglas attended secondary school in Lagos and Port-Harcourt and studied at Acton Technical School, London from 1963 to 1965, before proceeding to the University of Lagos where he studied from 1965 to 1969 and earned a BSc. in Botany and Zoology. <\/span><\/p>\n The former aviation minister worked with the Nigerian Petroleum Refinery Company, Port Harcourt between 1969 and 1977.<\/span><\/p>\n Graham-Douglas was the Managing Director of Togiscani Nigeria, a construction company from 1978 to 1985.<\/span><\/p>\n He was also chairman of the Binterteco Nigeria, Pabod Finance and Investment, and Waterglass Boat Yard, as he held many other key positions both within and outside government organisations.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A former Minister of Aviation, Alabo Graham-Douglas, who served under the regime of General Ibrahim Babangida in 1999, is dead. He was said to have died at a private hospital in Abuja on Monday at the age of 82. Graham-Douglas was appointed Minister of Labour and Productivity in 1999. He also served in the administration […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7490,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[1137,4513,4514,808],"class_list":["post-7489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-metro","tag-ex-minister","tag-graham-douglas","tag-minister-of-tourism","tag-rivers-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7489"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7489"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7489\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7492,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7489\/revisions\/7492"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}