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By McPhilips Nwachukwu<\/strong><\/p>\n

Prof Ekpo Eyo, the first Nigerian-born head of the National Commission for Museums and Monuments, NCMM, and Patron of the African Refugees Foundation is dead.<\/p>\n

\u00a0According to a\u00a0 statement by Olujimi Olusola III, CEO, African Refugee Foundation, Eyo died in the early hours of Sunday,\u00a0 May 29, 2011 at his home in Maryland, USA. He was, until 2006, a Professor of Anthropology at University of Maryland in the US.<\/p>\n

Of Efik, Creek Town, Western Calabar, origin, Prof Eyo was appointed Director of the then Federal Department of Antiquities in 1967. He is survived by his widow and children. Prof\u00a0 Eyo, who was made a Fellow of the Smithsonian Institution in 1984\u00a0 and is on record as Nigeria\u2019s Museums Chief with the longest uninterrupted tenure.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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