Former Minister of Works, Tony Anenih is dead

A PDP Chieftain and a former Minister of Works, Chief Tony Anenih is dead. Tony Anenih who died this afternoon at the age of 85, was admitted at the Cedar Crest hospital in Abuja last week.

Anthony Akhakon Anenih was born in Uzenema-Arue in Uromi. In 1951 he joined the Nigeria police force in Benin City. Working at home, he obtained secondary school qualifications. 

He attended the police college in Ikeja, and was selected for further training in the Bramshill Police College, Basingstoke, England in 1966 and the International Police Academy, Washington DC in 1970. He served as a police orderly to the first Governor General of Nigeria, Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe.