By Thompson Yamput
Gov. Ahmed Ododo of Kogi State as mourned the death of former Vice Chancellor of the University of Abuja, Prof. Nuhu Yaqub.
Prof. Yaqub died on Saturday in Abuja at the age of 73 after a brief illness.
Ododo, in a statement issued in Lokoja on Sunday by his Media Aide, Ismaila Isah, described Yaqub’s death as a sad loss of one of the influential voices of the people of the State and Nigeria at large.
According to the governor, Prof Yaqub was one of those, who spoke truth to power and against oppressive tendencies in and out of public office.
Ododo sympathised with the Ohinoyi of Ebira land, Alhaji Ahmed Muhammed-Anaje, the people of Kogi State and the immediate family of the deceased.
He also prayed for the peaceful repose of sould of the deceased and for Allah to grant the family the fortitude to bear the loss.
Born on March 3, 1951, in Okene, Kogi State, the late Prof. Nuhu Yaqub served as the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Abuja from June 2004 to May 2009 and went on to serve as the pioneer Vice-Chancellor of Sokoto State University from 2012 to 2017.
He also served as the Dean of the School of Postgraduate Studies at Nile University of Nigeria, Abuja, from 2017 to 2019, among other academic leadership positions.
His remains had since been buried according to Islamic rites.