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Ex-presidential amnesty boss, Dokubo, dies at 70

A former coordinator of the presidential amnesty programme, Prof. Charles Dokubo, has died at the age of 70.

It was gathered that Dokubo died at a hospital in Abuja on Wednesday night after a brief illness

Dokubo, an indigene of Abonnema in Akuku Toru Local Government Area of Rivers State, was born on March 23, 1952.

He had his primary and secondary school education in Abonnema community.

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The late PAP boss had 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 undertook a course in modern History and politics and was awarded a BA (Hons.) at the University of Bradford.

He completed his master’s degree in Peace Studies, before continuing his doctoral degree in Nuclear Weapon Proliferation and its control.

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