Former Chairman of the Presidential Amnesty Programme (PAP), Prof. Charles Dokubo, is dead.
It was learnt that 70-year-old Dokubo died on Wednesday evening after a brief illness.
Dokubo’s profile on the website of the Nigerian Institute of International Affairs (NIIA), Lagos, where he was a Research Professor, said that he was born on March 23, 1952, in Abonnema, Akuku Toru Local government of Rivers state, where he had primary and secondary school education.
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He proceeded to the United Kingdom, where he did 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 Masters Degree in Peace Studies, before continuing his doctoral degree in Nuclear Weapon Proliferation and its control.
In 1985, he was awarded his doctoral degree in the same University of Bradford.
He was later appointed a temporary lecturer in the department before proceeding to Nigeria in 1993.