Education

KWASU VC, Mustapha Akanbi, is dead

The Vice-Chancellor of Kwara State University (KWASU), Prof. Mustapha Akanbi, has been confirmed dead.

The KWASU Registrar, Kikelomo Salle, confirmed the death of Akanbi via a statement issued on Sunday.

Salle disclosed that Akanbi died on Sunday after a protracted illness.

“We urge everyone to remember his immediate and extended family, and the university in prayers in this very trying time.

“Burial arrangement will be announced soon,” she said.

In his reaction, Kwara State Governor, AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq, described Akanbi’s death as painful and shocking.

AbdulRazaq, in a statement issued by his Chief Press Secretary Rafiu Ajakaye, said: “We submit to the decree of Allah who gives and takes.

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“It is against that backdrop that we mourn the Vice Chancellor who answered Allah’s call tonight.

“He was a true and humble servant of Allah and we beseech our God, the Oft-Forgiving and Merciful, to grant him Al-jannah Firdaus.

“The professor of law was a colossus who played the leading role to open a new chapter of academic excellence and greatness for KWASU.

“Our condolences go to his family, immediate and extended, to KWASU and the rest of the academic community, and to members of the bar and the bench in Kwara and across the country,” the governor stated.

The Star

Segun Ojo

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