By Ola ‘Kiya, Reporting
THE Paramount ruler and Ohinoyi of Ebiraland, Alhaji Dr. Ado Ibrahim, has passed.
He passed at the age of 94 years after a brief illness.
Tribuneonline on Sunday reliably gathered that the monarch has been sick for some times and was being attended to at a private hospital in Abuja.
A source said that the Paramount ruler gave up the ghost in the early hours of Sunday.
His remains are expected to be brought to Okene for burial today according to Muslim rites.
Ibrahim was born February 7, 1929, and is the fourth traditional ruler and Ohinoyi of Ebiraland with headquarters in Okene, Kogi State.
He attended both Western nursery and Quranic schools, and went on to conclude his primary education in 1940 at the Native Authority (NA) Primary School, Okene, then Northern Region (now Kogi State).
He began his secondary school education at Ondo Boys High School and later on moved to Oduduwa College, where he graduated in 1949.
In 1954, he obtained a bachelor’s degree in Economics from the London School of Economics and a Master’s degree from Harvard Business School in 1959.
He was coronated in 1997 as the Ohinoyi of Ebira land and took over from his predecessor, Alhaji Sanni Omolori who reigned between 1957 and 1997.
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