A professor emeritus and former Vice Chancellor of the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Enugu State, Professor Umaru Shehu, is dead.
He died on Monday at the age of 97.
The elder statesman’s demise was announced in a statement by the Secretary of Borno Elders Forum, Dr. Bulama Gubio, on Monday.
The deceased was Northern Nigeria’s first Professor of Community Health, and Professor Emeritus, Community Health, University of Maiduguri.
Prof. Shehu was the founder of the Kanem Borno Historical and Cultural Foundation and a co-founder of the Borno Elders Forum.
and former President of the Nigerian Academy of Science.
He was born on December 8, 1930 in Maiduguri, Nigeria. He attended Elementary School, Maiduguri 1935-1940; Middle School, Maiduguri 1941-1943; Kaduna College, Kaduna 1944-1947; University College Ibadan 1948-1953; and was at the University of Liverpool between 1953-1956, and 1966-1967.
The deceased obtained a Bachelor of Medicine degree from the University of London. He also received a fellowship from the Institute of Cancer Research and he is the Editor-in-Chief of the British Medical Journal.
