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By PAMELA EBOH, Awka
The father of the renowned novelist Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, has died at the age of 88.
According to a family source, Prof James Adichie died on Wednesday night, June 10, at Chira Memorial Hospital Awkuzu in Oyi Local Government Area of Anambra State.
The late first Nigerian Professor of Statistics and Mathematics at the University of Nigeria Nsukka (UNN) was an indigene of Abba in Njikoka LGA of the state but had been living in Nsukka since his retirement.
Adichie was Nigeria’s first Professor of Statistics and a member of International Statistical Institute (ISI) since 1978 and member, Governing Council of (ISI) 1985-1987.
The member of Education Committee (ISI) 1987 became a Professor of Statistics in 1976.
