The renowned Nigerian Professor of Physics, Ibrahim Khalil Umar, aka I.H. Umar, has died some few hours ago, today. I.H Umar was a Nigerian ...
The renowned Nigerian Professor of Physics, Ibrahim Khalil Umar, aka I.H. Umar, has died some few hours ago, today.
I.H Umar was a Nigerian scientist of repute and he had once been a University administrator. Wikipedia sources described that he was a Vice Chancellor of Bayero University, Kano, Nigeria from 1979 to 1986. He held a B.Sc. in Physics and Mathematics from Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Nigeria, and M.Sc. in Physics from Northern Illinois University, USA and a PhD in Physics at the University of East Anglia, United Kingdom. In 1976 he became the first Nigerian academic in Physics to teach at Bayero University, Kano. In 1978 he served on the national constitutional assembly that drafted the Constitution of the 2nd Republic.
Between 1994 and 1997, the late I.H Umar served as a Sole Administrator of the Federal University of Technology, Minna.
He also represented Nigeria at the Executive Assembly of the World Energy Council from 1990. He was a member of the Nigerian delegation to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) General Conference from 1989 and was appointed Director-General of the Energy Commission of Nigeria in 1989. He served as Chairman of the Board of Governors of the IAEA for 2000-2001. In 2004 he was the Director of the Centre for Energy Research and Training, where the first Nigerian research nuclear reactor is located.
In 2007, he was on the international advisory committee for the international workshop on Renewable Energy for Sustainable Development in Africa, held at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka in Nigeria.
I.H Umar was among the first five Professors in Nigeria to attain the Chair of an Emeritus Professorship from Bayero University, Kano, Nigeria.
May the Almighty Allah have mercy on him, amin.
Source: The Daily Reality
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