Another Professor at the Bayero University, Kano (BUK) has died on wednesday. Prof. Monsuru Emiola died at the university clinic after a brief illness.
An indigene of Oyo State, Prof. Emiola was a senior lecturer with the Physical and Health Education Department, Faculty of Education. He is survived with a wife and children.
Announcing the death in the early hours of Thursday, a senior lecturer at the institution, Garba Sheka, described the late professor as a devoted Muslim.
Recall that BUK also lost a lecturer in the Faculty of Communication, Prof Balarabe Maikaba, on April 26.
Kano has recorded dozens of high profile deaths many described as mysterious especially as the deadly coronavirus continues to trouble the nation.
These deaths include that of six professors, a former Grand Khadi, a former state chairman of State Universal Basic Education (SUBEB), former commissioner of education, former editor of state owned Triumph Newspapers in addition to several others.