Ex-minister Turner Isoun is dead

Governor Douye Diri of Bayelsa State has expressed sadness over the passing of a former Minister of Science and Technology, Turner Isoun. Late Isoun, a professor, was minister between 2000 and 2007. This was contained in a statement by Governor Diri’s spokesman, Daniel Alabrah, issued on Friday in Yenagoa. The former minister, 87, died on 15 July in Abuja. According to the governor, the late professor of veterinary medicine was an academic colossus whose contributions to scholarship and national development are outstanding and immeasurable. He described his death as a huge loss to the Ijaw nation, the state and the country at large, Recalling his pioneering role as the first vice chancellor of the then University of Science and Technology (now Rivers State University), Port Harcourt, in th