ISAIAH BALAT IS DEAD, KADUNA PDP GOVERNOR HOPEFUL..!

A shocking news just broke about the passing of one of Southern Kaduna PDP political colossus Senator Isaiah Balat

Late Senato Isaiah Balat

PROFILE


Personal details:  BornOctober 23, 1952(age 61) Kaduna, Nigeria

Political party: People's Democratic Party

Religion: Christianity

Isaiah Chawai Balat(born October 23, 1952) is a Nigerian politician and business man from Kaduna State who was Senator for Kaduna South from May 2003 to May 2007.

Early life and education:

Isaiah Chawai Balat was born in Gora, a village in Zangon Kataflocal government Area of Kaduna State, Nigeria. Losing his mother as an infant, he had to live with his grandmother until he was old enough to fend for himself. He later left the village and moved to the city to make a living. After his primary and post-primary education, he attended a programme in Marketing at the Kaduna Polytechnic between 1976 and 1978. Later he attended the Advanced Management Program at the Harvard Business School and the college of Petroleum and Energy Studies at Oxford, United Kingdom.

Political career

Balat was appointed Minister of State for Works & Housing in the cabinet of President Olusegun Obasanjo in June 1999.

He established the Isaiah Balat Foundation, which has the goal of vaccinating over a million people across Kaduna state against Meningitis.

SOURCE: http://leadership.ng/news/346269/former-minister-works-senator-isaiah-balat-dead