DEATH: FORMER MINISTER OF COMMERCE, BELLO MAITAMA DIES 13-10:23
By Sadiq Aminu A former minister of Commerce and Natural Resources, under Alhaji Shehu Shagari/NPN Government, Bello Maitama Yusuf is dead.
Alhaji Bello Yusuf Maitama, who served Shagari Government was also a former senator from 1999-2007 died in the early hours of Friday in Kano at 76 years old age.
A family friend of the deceased, Alhaji Hussaini Dalhatu told Newsmen that the funeral prayer of the Sardauna Dutse would take place after Jumu’at prayer at the Emir of Kano’s palace.
He said Bello Maitama Yusuf, born in Gwaram, Jigawa State in 1947 was minister of interior in 1981 and minister of commerce in 1982.