EditorFORMER military administrator of Rivers State, Brigadier General Anthony Ukpo, is dead.
Brigadier General Anthony Ukpo, a former information minister during General Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida’s regime died Monday morning.
Close ally, Leonard Anyogu, who is the secretary of the Ogoja State Creation Committee, which was chaired by Ukpo, confirmed the former military administrator’s death.
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