Mike Torey Explained

Lucky Mike Torey
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Office1:Military Governor of Ondo State
Term Start1:December 1993
Term End1:September 1994
Predecessor1:Dele Olumilua
Successor1:Ahmed Usman
Office2:Military Governor of Enugu State
Term Start2:14 September 1994
Term End2:22 August 1996
Predecessor2:Temi Ejoor
Successor2:Sule Ahman
Death Date:16 November 2013
Nationality:Nigerian
Allegiance: Nigeria
Branch: Nigerian Army
Rank:Colonel

Lucky Mike Torey was a Nigerian army officer who was appointed Military Administrator of Ondo State, Nigeria from December 1993 to September 1994, and then of Enugu State until August 1996 during the military regime of general Sani Abacha.[1] He died on 16 November 2013, after a brief illness.[2]

Colonel Lucky Mike Torey established the Enugu State Environmental Protection Agency in 1995.[3] In 1996, Torey stopped state government subventions to some of the Enugu State parastatals, including the Enugu State water corporation.[4]

In 2005, Torey was one of the aspirants to the Unuevworo traditional stool in Ekpan, Uvwie Local Government area of Delta State.[5] In March 2010, Torey chaired a ceremony where the Federal Government presented a Site Handing Over Certificate to H.O.B. Nigeria for a 430-unit housing project in Akure, Ondo State.[6]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Agekameh . Dele . Goodnight Col. Lucky Mike Torey . Vanguard News . 2014-02-16 . 2023-06-10.
  2. Web site: Nigerian States . WorldStatesmen . 2010-03-27.
  3. Web site: The Impact of Urban Waste Management on the Environment: An Appraisal of Enugu State . Ezema Jonas Uwakwe . University of Nigeria . 2010-03-27 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20120301175956/http://www.unn.edu.ng/home/index.php/Download-document/11063-The-Impact-of-Urban-Waste-Management-on-the-Environment-An-Appraisal-of-Enugu-State.html . 2012-03-01.
  4. Web site: Public Corporations and Management of Social Services in Nigeria (A case Study of Enugu State Water Corporation) . May 2003 . Asogwa Brendan Eze . University of Nigeria . 2010-03-27 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20120301180101/http://www.unn.edu.ng/home/index.php/Download-document/15845-Public-Corporations-and-Management-of-Social-Services-in-Nigeria-A-case-Study-of-Enugu-State.html . 2012-03-01.
  5. Web site: How to Curb Arms Proliferation in N/Delta . ThisDay . 2005-03-30 . 2010-03-27.
  6. Web site: Commissioning of the 1st Phase of H.O.B. Housing Estate, Akure. . H.O.B. Nigeria . 2010-03-27.