Ex-minister, Turner Isoun dies at 87

Former Minister of Science and Technology, Professor Turner Isoun, has died astatine the property of 87, prompting tributes from Bayelsa State Governor Douye Diri, who described him arsenic an outstanding student and statesman.

Isoun, who served nether erstwhile President Olusegun Obasanjo from 2000 to 2007, passed distant successful Abuja connected July 15.

In a connection issued done his Chief Press Secretary, Daniel Alabrah, Governor Diri said the precocious professor’s contributions to education, science, exertion and nationalist improvement would stay unforgettable.

The politician hailed Isoun arsenic an intelligence elephantine whose power extended beyond academia and nationalist service, noting that his decease was a large nonaccomplishment to Bayelsa State, the Ijaw federation and Nigeria.

Diri besides highlighted Isoun’s relation arsenic the pioneer Vice-Chancellor of Rivers State University of Science and Technology, wherever helium helped laic the instauration for Nigeria’s archetypal assemblage of subject and technology.

As minister, Isoun championed cardinal reforms successful Nigeria’s exertion sector, including the constitution of NITDA, the instauration of Galaxy Backbone and the advancement of the country’s outer programme.

Beyond nationalist service, helium was a salient advocator for Ijaw interests and played a relation successful the run that led to the instauration of Bayelsa State successful 1996.

Governor Diri extended condolences to Isoun’s fa...