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.
If I Were Governor El-rufa'i - Salis Moriki
I am so much in support of restructuring of our educational sector. The level at which our educational sector deteriorated is beyond imagination and needs a very powerful, fearless and serious minded person that will totally overhaul it for the interest of the people and nation at large. That is why I doff my hat for Kaduna state governor Mallam Nasir El-rufa'i for having the guts and audacity to do what others found difficult. Where I'm not with him, is the method he applies to remedy the negative situation. But it has to be done if he's to revive the sector. In most of the states and local governments in Nigeria, primary school teaching has become a politically compensating ground for politicians' wives and relatives whenever election is won. It resulted in having half literates as teachers in most of the primary schools. This, and other factors, contributed a lot in deterioration of education in Nigeria. That's why we are educationally half-baked, just like...
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