Reports reaching us say Brigadier General Stephen Anthony Ukpo is dead. , The Cross River born former Minister of Information and Culture who was also Rivers State Military Administrator during General Ibrahim Babangida’s regime is dead.
Gen Ukpo according to a source died on Monday morning in Asi Ukpo hospital, a high profile medical facilities in Calabar located along Mary Slessor Avenue close to the University of Calabar , owned by him.
According to a source, the retired army general had been sick for some time and was being treated at the hospital but was rushed in early this morning before he passed on”.
The body is in the morgue of the hospital awaiting burial arrangements by family members.
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