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BREAKING: SA To Okowa On Entrepreneurship Is Dead
By Daniel Dafe
Oasis Magazine has learnt that the Special Adviser (SPAD) to the Governor on Entrepreneurship Development, Chief(Hon.) Mary Iyasere is dead.
A family source said she died in her house at Benin City, Edo State at about 1a.m. on Thursday due to issues with her blood pressure.
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She died at 68.
The deceased was the Commissioner for Commerce and Tourism during Mr Okowa’s first tenure.
The lawyer, who hailed from Urhuakpor community in Agbon Kingdom of Delta State, founded the Ethiope East LGA-based Urhuakpor Women in Politics (UWIP).
She was a renowned entrepreneur and Chairman of a Benin based Food and Confectionary Outfit, RIMA Enterprises.
Reactions have started coming in with many from Ethiope East where she hails from describing today as a ‘BLACK THURSDAY.’
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