Nairaland Forum

BREAKING NEWS: ABU professor,
Hyacinth Mbibu, shot dead in Zaria
The Head of Department of
Surgery, Ahmadu Bello Univeristy
Teaching Hospital, Shika, Zaria,
Professor Hyacinth Nong Mbibu,
was killed by unknown
assailantson motorcycle this
evening.
The professor was on his way
home after attending to his
patients at the hospital after 8 p.m
when he was attacked.
According to a close associate,
with his death, Ahmadu Bello
University has lost a very
hardworking, impartial professor.
A nurse whom he gave a lift in his
car at the gate of the hospital was
also shot in her arm. She is
presently on admission at the
hospital.
For about eight years now, the late
Professor Mbibu has been among
the coordinators of the West
African College of Surgeons.
Sources at the hospital said that
his students are extremely
saddened by his departure as they
knew him to be a very
compassionate and
hardworkingprofessor.
Prof Mbibu was also a visiting
urologic surgeon, Armed Forces
Hospital, as well as a visiting
lecturer, Usman Dan Fodio
University, Sokoto.
This post has been updated to
indicate that Prof Mbibu was not a
Cameroonian as earlier reported.
He was from Takum in Taraba
State, according to his bioon the
website of the Ahmadu Bello
University.
-Premium Timesng

R.I.P prof. Guess he stepped on some people's toes.