{"id":133467,"date":"2022-01-12T16:44:24","date_gmt":"2022-01-12T15:44:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/?p=133467"},"modified":"2022-01-12T16:44:24","modified_gmt":"2022-01-12T15:44:24","slug":"former-minister-of-finance-chu-okongwu-is-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2022\/01\/12\/former-minister-of-finance-chu-okongwu-is-dead\/","title":{"rendered":"Former minister of finance, Chu Okongwu is dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An economist and a former minister of finance, Chu Okongwu is dead.<\/p>\n<p>Okongwu died on wednesday morning. He died at the age of 87 years old.<\/p>\n<p>Okongwu was born on September 23, 1934 in Anambra state, Nigeria. He is the first of eight children.<\/p>\n<p>He attended St. Michael&#8217;s school, Aba between 1941 and 1946. From there he moved to Government College, Umuahia and was a student there from 1947 till 1951.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">He studied <a href=\"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2022\/01\/06\/pdp-reacts-to-appointment-of-doyin-salami-as-chief-economic-adviser-says-it-is-a-waste-of-time\/\">economic<\/a> theory at Boston University and completed the degree in 1961. He also attended Harvard University from 1961 to 1965.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">He served for eight years under the administration of Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida (IBB), former military head of state, firstly as the minister of finance from 1985 to 1986 and national planning from 1986 to 1990; and subsequently as the minister of cabinet affairs, and later, as the minister of petroleum.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Speaking in an\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanguardngr.com\/2013\/10\/yoruba-man-gave-life-changing-job-mothers-disbelief-chu-okongwu\/\"><strong>interview<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0with Vanguard in 2013 at the age of 79, Okongwu described his health as being \u201cas good as it can be at my age\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cI still manage to do three miles of walk every day; that is four days a week and, from head to toe, there are usual old age problems, but I think I am happy to be around. I have no plans of wasting my time on chonyi, chonyi, chonyi\u2026 every minute of my God\u2019s given time on earth. I have been usefully engaged in something productive,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">He also said he was once a journalist and had served at Daily Times newspaper as a sub-editor.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">In October, Okongwu\u2019s house was set ablaze by gunmen in the state.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An economist and a former minister of finance, Chu Okongwu is dead. Okongwu died on wednesday morning. He died at the age of 87 years old. Okongwu was born on September 23, 1934 in Anambra state, Nigeria. He is the first of eight children. He attended St. Michael&#8217;s school, Aba between 1941 and 1946. 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