BUK loses former VC Umar

A former Vice Chancellor of Bayero University Kano, Professor Ibrahim Umar, is dead.

His son, Farouk Ibrahim Umar, confirmed the death to reporters on Monday.

He said that the funeral rites of the late famous physicist would be held at Kofar Kudu on Tuesday (today) at 10 am.

The deceased, who served as BUK Vice-Chancellor between 1979 and 1986, was the institution’s third head.

He was the first Nigerian academic in physics to teach at the university in 1976.

He was a member of the Nigerian Delegation to the General Conference of the International Atomic Energy Agency from 1989 and was appointed Director General of the Energy Commission of Nigeria in 1989.

The late Prof. Umar served as Chairman of the Board of Directors of the IAEA from 2000-2001 and in 2004 was Director of the Center for Energy Research and Training, which houses Nigeria’s first research nuclear reactor.

His last known appointment was in 2007 when he served on the International Advisory Committee for the International Workshop on Renewable Energy for Sustainable Development in Africa held at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Nigeria.

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