Kaduna State commissioner for education, Professor Jonathan Andrew Nok is dead.
He died today shortly after a brief illness.
Mr Andrew was a professor of Biochemistry, won many national and international awards.
In 2010, he won Nigeria’s highest academic honour, the Nigerian National Order of Merit, NNOM, in the science category.
Professor Andrew Nok, was said to be the first person in the world to discover the gene responsible for an enzyme which causes sleeping sickness.
He was a graduate of Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria 1983, born at Nok village in Jaba local government Area of Kaduna state on January 11, 1962.
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