Nigeria Loses Another Prominent Professor

• Nigeria has lost another prominent professor history, Abednego Ekoko to death. 

EKO HOT BLOG reports that a renowned Nigerian history Professor and former Vice-Chancellor of Delta State University, Abraka, Professor Abednego Ekoko, is dead.

It was learnt that the Professor Ekoko died on Saturday morning at the age of 79.

The deceased who hailed from Uzere in Isoko South Local Government Area of Delta State was a member of the Project Committee for the establishment of three new universities in the state.

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He was the third Vice-Chancellor of DELSU between 1998 to 1999 and was also a former chairman of the Governing Council of Delta State Polytechnic, Ogwashi-Uku.

Professor Ekoko was also a former commissioner for education in Delta State.

In 2003, unknown gunmen kidnapped but later freed the eminent scholar at his Uzere country home in Isoko.

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