Professor Umaru Shehu, a former vice chancellor of the University of Nigeria in Nsukka, Enugu State, has passed away.
The first Professor of Community Health in Northern Nigeria passed away on Monday, according to a statement released by the Borno Elders Forum and signed by its Secretary, Dr. Bulama Gubio.
The Borno Elders Forum and the Kanem Borno Historical and Cultural Foundation were both founded by Prof. Shehu, who passed away at the age of 97.
He was the previous president of the Nigerian Academy of Science and Professor Emeritus of Community Health at the University of Maiduguri.
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Prof. Shehu 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.
Professor Shehu received 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.
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