{"id":58987,"date":"2025-01-06T10:54:11","date_gmt":"2025-01-06T10:54:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=58987"},"modified":"2025-01-06T10:54:11","modified_gmt":"2025-01-06T10:54:11","slug":"former-uniabuja-vice-chancellor-nuhu-yaqub-passes-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/01\/06\/former-uniabuja-vice-chancellor-nuhu-yaqub-passes-away\/","title":{"rendered":"Former UNIABUJA Vice-Chancellor, Nuhu Yaqub, Passes Away"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>By Adenike Lawal<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Professor Nuhu Yaqub, former Vice-Chancellor of the University of Abuja (UNIABUJA), has passed away at a private hospital in Abuja after a brief illness. He was 72.<\/p>\n<p>Born on March 3, 1951, in Okene, Kogi State, Yaqub remained active in academia until his final days.<\/p>\n<p>Just days before his passing, he delivered a keynote address at an event in Okene organized by De Noble Club 10 Kogi Central.<\/p>\n<p>Beyond UNIABUJA, he also served as Vice-Chancellor of Sokoto State University and chaired the Academic Advisory Board of the National Institute for Legislative and Democratic Studies (NILDS).<\/p>\n<p>The Director-General of NILDS described his death as a profound loss, highlighting his lasting impact on academia and governance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Adenike Lawal Professor Nuhu Yaqub, former Vice-Chancellor of the University of Abuja (UNIABUJA), has passed away at a private hospital in Abuja after a brief illness. He was 72. Born on March 3, 1951, in Okene, Kogi State, Yaqub remained active in academia until his final days. Just days before his passing, he delivered [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":58988,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[59,251],"class_list":["post-58987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-featured","tag-uniabuja"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58987"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58987\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58989,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58987\/revisions\/58989"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}