Nigeria’s 1st Emeritus Professor, Umaru Shehu is dead

This is contained in a statement by Dr Bulama Gubio, the Secretary of the Borno Elders Forum, on Monday in Maiduguri.“We regret to announce the demise of our founding father of both the Kanem Borno Historical and Cultural Foundation as well as the BEF.

“Professor Emeritus Umaru Shehu, CFR, Dr Shettima Ali Monguno and Maina Ibrahim Damcida were the founding fathers of BEF.“May All have mercy upon our foremost professor of community medicine and a global giant in the field of medicine,” Gubio said. Shehu was the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, from 1978 to 1980) and held visiting professorships in various universities, including the School of Medicine, University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, U.S. from 1976 to 1977.

He was also a foundation fellow of the National Postgraduate Medical College of Nigeria; a foundation fellow of the West African College of Physicians; a foundation fellow of the Nigerian Academy of Science; and a foundation fellow of the Faculty of Community Medicine .Related Topics:

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