One Nigerian Big Businessman Michael Ibru Is Dead

Michael Ibru, a renowned Nigerian businessman, is dead. Mr. Ibru, the patriarch of the Ibru family and the Otota of Agbarha-Otor kingdom, Delta State, was said to have passed on peacefully at a medical facility in the United States in the early hours of Tuesday, September 6, according to a statement by the family. He was 86. The late Mr. Ibru, an Officer of the Federal Republic, was the head of the Ibru Organization, with flourishing business interest in fish trading, tourism, timber and poultry. His wife, Cecilia Ibru, was the former managing director of the defunct Oceanic Bank. The governor of Delta State, Ifeanyi Okowa, in his condolence message to the family, said the late Mr. Ibru played a role in the creation of the state.