The late Lt. General Diya, soldier and lawyer, was born Monday, 3 April, 1944 in Odogbolu, Ogun State, South-west Nigeria.
A terse statement shared with PREMIUM TIMES by the late military general’s media adviser, Olawale Adekoya, and signed on behalf of the family by Oyesinmilola Diya, a lawyer and the deceased’s first son, announced the death.
Mr Diya attended Yaba Methodist School, Lagos from 1950–1956 and thereafter became a pioneer student of Odogbolu Grammar School, ehich he attended from 1957 to 1962.
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