Professor Ibrahim Umar, former vice-chancellor of Bayero University Kano, has passed away.
His son Farouk Ibrahim Umar confirmed the death to journalists on Monday.
He said the funeral of the deceased famous physicist will be held at Kofar Kudu on Tuesday (today) at 10am.
From 1979 until 1986 he was Vice Chancellor of his BUK. The deceased was the third director of his agency. He was the first Nigerian physicist to teach at a university in 1976.
Since 1989 he has been a member of the Nigerian delegation to the General Assembly of the International Atomic Energy Agency and in 1989 was appointed Secretary General of the Nigerian Energy Commission.
From 2000 until 2001 he was President of the IAEA Board of Governors and in 2004 Director of the Center for Energy Research and Education, home to Nigeria’s first research reactor.
His most recent appointment was in 2007, when he was a member of the International Advisory Board of the International Workshop on Renewable Energy for Sustainable Development in Africa, held at the University of Nigeria, Nigeria. under.
