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Ambassador Mamman Daura, who is a former Director General and Chief Executive Officer of the Technical Aid Corps (TAC) scheme, is dead.

He died yesterday after a battling an undisclosed illness  for a longtime, he is expected to be buried according to Muslim rites today by 2:30pm at the Emir of Daura’s palace in Katsina State.

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Ambassador Daura, born in Daura, Katsina State in 1946, was Nigeria’s Ambassador to Uganda for 11 years and had served in Saudi Arabia, South Korea, Belgium and Cameroon.

He served as TAC director for two terms before leaving in 2013.

Daura, a graduate of Maryland University in the United States of America (USA), started his working career with the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) in 1967 before moving to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1969.

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He left behind his aged mother, wife, brothers, sisters and children.