A former military governor of Kano state, Dominic Oneya is dead.
Abubakar Aminu Ibrahim, media aide to Kano governor Abdullahi Ganduje, announced his death on Thursday, August 5.
Oneya, aged 73, was military governor of Kano from August 1996 to August 1998 during the regime of Sani Abacha.
He was also a former president of the then-Nigeria Football Association (NFA)