Nigeria’s Billionaire, Oluwo Antonio Deinde Fernandez is dead, aged 79 years.
Announcing his demise in a tweet at about 9.pm on Tuesday, Nigerian Journalist/Publisher, Dele Momodu, said: “Nigeria, and indeed Africa, has just lost one of its greatest sons; Ambassador Chief Antonio Dehinde Fernandez is gone!”
He died on the 1st of September , 2015 in Belgium.
Fernandez, 78, died on Tuesday evening in a private hospital in Brussels, Belgium after battling with an undisclosed illness for several months. He died in the presence of his wife, Halima Maude Fernandez.
Fernandez was one of Nigeria’s most reclusive and mysterious moneybags. The intensely private Nigerian diplomat formerly served as the Central African Republic’s ambassador to the United Nations. Between 1982 and 1984 he served as advisor to the Angolan government on economic matters. He was subsequently appointed as deputy permanent representative of Mozambique in the United Nations in 1984. Between 1992 and 1995 he served as a special adviser to the president of Mozambique on International Economic Matters.
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