Dr Lekan Are, a foremost Nigerian agronomist, businessman, philanthropist and Chairman of University Press Plc, is dead.
He was 86-years-old
Mr Toye Akinrinola, the Public Relations Officer of University College Hospital (UCH), Ibadan, confirmed Are’s death to NAN on Saturday.
He said that Are died during a brief illness at the High Dependency Unit of UCH at about 12.30 am on Saturday.
Are, born on December 2, 1933, was a former General Manager of Ogun-Osun River Basin Development Authority.
He was the Managing Director/ Chairman of Kakanfo Inn, Managing Director, Lekan Are Farms Limited and a Director of Punch Nigeria Limited.
The agricultural consultant and farmer was until his death the Laguna Bobajiro of Ibadanland.
NAN
