News reaching us says that Oronto Douglas, a top presidential aide and confidant of President Goodluck Jonathan, has died.
Mr. Douglas died early this morning [Nigerian time] at the State House Clinic, a close family source said.
The source said Mr. Douglas died from cancer-related complications.
Mr.
Douglas came to national and international prominence as an
environmental activist on behalf of the oil-producing communities of the
Niger Delta.
A lawyer by profession, the deceased was born in 1966.
Mr. Douglas had been sick for several years.
Even
so, associates of President Jonathan said he continued to work over the
last few weeks for Mr. Jonathan’s reelection, with one source saying he
was devastated when his principal lost the presidential polls.
Mr. Douglas is survived by a wife and children.
http://www.nigerianmonitor.com/2015/04/09/breaking-president-jonathans-aide-oronto-douglas-dies
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