Tag: ABU

ABU Professor Returns N1.1m Wrongly Paid To Him By NDA

Ganiyu Amodu

The Commandant of the Nigerian Defence Academy (NDA), Major-General John-Ochefu Ochai, on Wednesday visited Ahmadu Bello University (ABU) Zaria to commend Prof. Umar Ka’oje for voluntarily returning N1,153,953.36 wrongly paid to him. The money was paid to the don after the expiration of his teaching contract with the nation’s apex military academy. The visit by the commandant to the university was in addition to a letter of commendation to the don by the NDA dated September 11. READ ALSO Historic: Former Somali Refugee Becomes Mayor Of Minnesota City Nigeria Unveils…

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Nigeria’s First Prof of Architecture, AdeyemI Ekundayo, is dead

Damilola Olonade

Brief resume of the late erudite schorlar, an ex- Vice Chancellor of FUTA) and the first indigenous HoD of Architecture and Dean, Environmental Design, ABU, Zaria.   The first professor of Architecture in Nigeria and Africa South of Sahara, Ekundayo Adeyinka Adeyemi, is dead. Platforms Africa reports that the Former Vice Chancellor of the Federal University of Science and Technology, Akure (FUTA) was also the first indigenous Head of Department of Architecture and Dean of Environmental Design in Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria. A veteran journalist and former governorship aspirant in…

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