Ex-Niger Delta amnesty boss, Dokubo dies at 70

Professor Charles Dokubo, former Chairman of the Presidential Amnesty Programme, PAP, has died aged 70.

It was learnt that Dokubo passed on during a brief illness on Wednesday evening.

The former Niger Delta amnesty boss was born in Abonnema, Akuku Toru Local Government Area of Rivers State on the 23rd of March 1952.

Dokubo had his primary and Secondary School education in Abonnema.

He did his ‘A’ levels at Huddersfield Technical College in West Yorkshire. From 1978-1980, Dokubo was admitted to the University of Teesside at Middlesbrough, where he studied 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 Weapons Proliferation and 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 returning to Nigeria in 1993.

Dokubo was Director of Research and Studies at the Nigerian Institute of International Affairs (NIIA) for many years and appointed to head the Presidential Amnesty Programme in 2018.

He was dropped by President Muhammadu Buhari in 2020 following a barrage of petitions against his administration.