The former Registrar, Kogi State University Anyigba, Alhaji Dr Abubakar Yunusa Idu is dead.
According to source Dr Idu slumped at Idah on Wednesday during the coronation of the new Attah of Igala, HRH Mathew Alaji Opaluwa 1.
Dr Idu a native of Ojoku community in Ankpa local government area of Kogi State joined the services of Kogi State University, Anyigba as Assistant Registrar in 1999.
He rose to the position of Deputy Registrar and was later appointed Registrar of the Institution in 2016 after the death of late Registrar of the University, Mr Joseph Zhizhi who died in a ghastly motor accident along Okene -Anyigba road in 2015.
As at press time, information about what led to his death was still sketchy as his corpse was taken to Ankpa his ancestral home on Wednesday for Muslim burial today Thursday, November 18, 2021.
Dr Idu started his early education in Ankpa town along with Quranic education. He attended College of Education Ankpa, University of Nigeria Nsukka both for graduate and post graduate studies in public administration, and later bagged his PhD in the same discipline. He was happily married with children.
