By Dirisu Yakubu

ABUJA-Elder statesman and former Minister of Finance, Mallam Adamu Ciroma is dead. Ciroma who was also a one-time Minister of Agriculture died in an Abuja hospital on Thursday after battling a protracted illness.

Malam Adamu Ciroma

A former Managing Director of the New Nigerian Newspapers, Ciroma was a founding member of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). He was aged 84.

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