A former Vice Chancellor of the University of Abuja, Professor Nuhu Yaqub, has died at the age of 73. He was also the first Vice Chancellor of Sokoto State University, Sokoto.
Professor Yaqub died after a brief illness at a private hospital in Abuja.
Ten days ago, he was in Okene, Kogi State to deliver a keynote address in a lecture session orgainised by De Noble Club 10 Kogi Central.
Yaqub, who was born in Okene on 3 March, 1951 to late Alhaji Yaqub and Hajiya Aishatu Yaqub, started his Qur’anic education and completed it in 1963.
He started his primary education at Nurul Islam Primary School in Okene in 1961. He was there up to 1967.
After his first degree, he was employed by the old Kwara State as a teacher at Lennon Memorial College, Okene. He was there for about a year before he got appointment as a graduate assistant at the then University of Sokoto, which later changed to Usmanu Danfodio University (UDUS). He was there up to the time he came to University of Abuja as Vice Chancellor.
The Usmanu Danfodio University sent him for his MA at University of Toronto, Canada. He also got federal government scholarship to go to University of Sussex, England where he did his PhD in 1989. He rose steadily to the rank of a Professor in 1998.
At a point, he was Head, Dept. of Political Science. Later, he became the Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences and coordinator of four faculties under him because the institution ran a collegiate system. From 1999, he was made Deputy Vice Chancellor for four years before he came to Abuja as VC.
