As puzzle rages over the deaths Kano State is witnessing, a Professor of Mass Communication at Bayero University in Kano, Balarabe Maikaba is the latest victim.
Maikaba died on Sunday and has been buried, passing on after six top academics had died in the state in the last 24 hours.
Reports say burial prayer for the deceased was held by 4pm at his family house, near Plaza cinema, Fagge quarters in Kano city.
Prominent persons that died in Kano on Saturday April 25 include Prof Ibrahim Ayagi, Dr Musa Umar Gwarzo, Alhaji Dahiru Rabiu (former Grand Khadi), Musa Tijjani (Editor of Triumph Newspaper) and Adamu Isyaku Dal, who was a former Executive Secretary of the State Universal Basic Education Board.
Others, according to ‘The Nation’, are Alhaji Salisu Lado, Hajiya Shamsiyya Mustapha, Hajiyaj Nene Umma, Alhaji Garba Sarki Fagge, Dr Nasiru Maikano Bichi, Secretary Student Affairs, North West University, Prof Aliyu Umar Dikko of Physiology Department, Bayero University Kano, and Ado Gwanja’s mother.
