Professor Tamunoemi David-West is dead.
He died today November 11, 2019.
A former minister of Petroleum, David-West gave up the ghost three months after he celebrated his 83rd birthday.
The elder stateman was born Buguma, Kalabari, in what is now Rivers State on August 26, 1936.
David-West was born in Buguma, Kalabari, in what is now Rivers State.
He had his higher education at the University of Ibadan (1956–1958) and bagged a BSc degree at Michigan State University (1958–1960).
His MSc degree was at Yale University (1960–1962), and crowned it with a PhD degree at McGill University.
He served in Nigerian government as commissioner of education and a member of the Executive Council of Rivers State (1975–1979), as a member of the fifty-person Constitution Drafting Committee for the Federal Military Government of General Murtala Muhammed (1979), as federal minister of petroleum and energy under General Muhammadu Buhari (1984–1985), and as minister of mines, power, and steel under General Ibrahim Babangida (1986).
He was eventually removed as minister and arrested by the Babangida regime for allegedly contributing to the economic adversity of the country; He was discharged and acquitted of these charges by Nigeria’s Special Appeal Court on 8 August 1991.
