“Before you left primary school, many people thought it was impossible…,” Bola Ige’s 1981 letter to beneficiaries of free education
Bola Ige was a Nigerian lawyer and politician. He was Nigeria’s Federal Minister of Justice between January 2000 and December 2001 when he was assassinated.
He was murdered in his home in Ibadan, Oyo State on December 23, 2001.
At the time he wrote this letter, he was the Governor of Oyo State.
This story was first published on August 26, 2016.
