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BREAKING: Ex-Niger Delta Amnesty boss, Charles Dokubo, dies at 70

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Charles Dokubo was admitted to the University of Teesside at Middlesbrough, where he undertook a course in modern History and politics and was awarded a BA [Hons] at the University of Bradford.

By Ishaya Ibrahim, News Editor

The Special Adviser to the President on Niger Delta and Coordinator, Presidential Amnesty Program, Prof. Charles Dokubo, is dead.

Reporting by Pulse.ng quoted sources who said Charles Dokubo  died  after a brief illness on the evening of Wednesday, August 24 at an undisclosed hospital in Abuja

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Before his appointment as special adviser on Amnesty Program, Dokubo was the director of research at the Nigeria Institute of International Affairs (NIIA).

He had his primary and Secondary School education in Abonnema, kuku Toru Local government of Rivers state on the 23rd of March 1952.

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He did his ‘A’ levels at Huddersfield Technical College in West Yorkshire.

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From 1978-1980, Dokubo was admitted to the University of Teesside at Middlesbrough, where he undertook a course in modern History and politics and was awarded a BA [Hons] at the University of Bradford.

He completed his Masters Degree in Peace Studies, before continuing his doctoral degree in Nuclear Weapon Proliferation and its control.

In 1985, he was awarded his doctoral degree in the same University of Bradford.

He was later appointed a temporary lecturer in the department before proceeding to Nigeria in 1993.

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