News: Exit of An Icon Former Minister Maitama Sule dies in Egypt

Dr. Yusuf Maitama Sule, a former Minister for National Guidance of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, has reportedly died.

According to a report by Leadership, the former minister, who was a presidential candidate of the National Party of Nigeria in 1979, died in a hospital in Cairo, Egypt this morning.

Maitama, an acclaimed diplomat, was made Minister for National Guidance by President Shehu Shagari in 1983 in the president's bid to tackle corruption in government.