Anthony Ukpo remembered five years after death

Brigadier General Anthony Stephen Ikaba Ukpo is being remembered five years after his passing in September 2021. A native of Okpoma in Northern Cross River, Ukpo held several prominent positions during the administration of General Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida.

His career included serving as Nigeria’s Minister of Information starting in August 1985 and as the Military Governor of Rivers State in 1986. He also served as the Principal Staff Officer to President Babangida in 1989 before retiring from the Nigerian Army in 1993. His military training spanned the United Kingdom, the United States, Israel, and Lebanon, and he participated in United Nations Force Operations in Lebanon.