By ABUBAKAR YUSUF

Former Registrar, Kogi State University, Alhaji Dr Abubakar Yunusa Idu, is dead.

He slumped and died yesterday, Wednesday, November 17, 2021, at Idah, Kogi State, during the coronation of the new Attah of Igala, HRH Mathew Alaji Opaluwa 1.

Alhaji Abubakar Idu hailed from Ojoku in Ankpa Local Government Area of the state. He joined the services of Kogi State University, Anyigba, as Assistant Registrar in 1999, rose to the position of Deputy Registrar before being appointed Registrar of the institution in 2016.

He took over from the erstwhile Registrar, Mr (Elder) Joseph Zhizhi, who died in a ghastly motor accident along Okene – Anyigba road in 2015.

Alhaji Abubakar Idu’s corpse was promptly taken to Ankpa, his ancestral home, for Muslim burial rites today, Thursday, November 18, 2021.

A scholar par excellence, late Dr Idu had his early formal and Quoranic education in Ankpa town. He went to College of Education, Ankpa, and University of Nigeria, Nsukka, for graduate and post-graduate studies respectively in public administration, before later bagging his Ph.D in the same discipline.

He is survived by his wife and children.