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BREAKING: KWASU VC, Prof Akanbi SAN is Dead
The Vice Chancellor of Kwara State University (KWASU), Malete, Professor Muhammed Mustapha Akanbi (SAN) has died.
He reportedly died after undergoing months of treatment at Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Late Mohammed Mustapha Akanbi became a Professor at the age of 40 years and was appointed as Vice Chancellor at 49 years.
Details of what led to his death were still sketchy as of the time of filing this report as the Director of KWASU relations, Dr Saedat Aliyu, did not respond to calls made to her phone number.
The late Vice Chancellor will be buried in Ilorin on Monday, November 21, 202 in his country home according to Islamic rites, it was gathered.
He became the Vice Chancellor of Kwara State University after being appointed by the Kwara State Governor, Abdulrazak Abdulrahman on Wednesday, April 1, 2020,
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He is a former Director of the Unilorin School of Preliminary Studies and also the son of the former President of The Court of Appeal and pioneer Chairman of the Independent Corrupt Practices and other related offences, Justice Mohammed Mustapha Akanbi.
An alumnus of the prestigious Kings College, University of London, United Kingdom, Akanbi served as legal assistant in the legal unit of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Lagos State, during his national service year.
He boasted of over twenty years’ experience as an academic in the University of Ilorin, during which he also held several administrative positions.
Akanbi had over 60 national and international publications in reputable peer-review journals with a bias in Alternative Dispute Resolution and Arbitration Law. His other research areas include conflict resolution laws, corporate management law and practice.
Reacting to Akanbi’s demise, The Kwara State Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq described it as painful and shocking.
“We submit to the decree of Allah who gives and takes. It is against that backdrop that we mourn the Vice Chancellor who answered Allah’s call tonight. He was a true and humble servant of Allah and we beseech our God, the Oft-Forgiving and Merciful, to grant him al-jannah Firdaus,” the Governor said in a statement Sunday night.
The university don was a member of the Technical Working Committee 2013 on “An Independent Review of Evidence of Gross Violation of the Rights to Participation in Government and Fair Trial through the Election Petition Process in Nigeria 2003 – 2011,” commissioned by National Human Right Commission, Abuja, OSIWA and the Ford Foundation.
He was also a Consultant/Member of the Technical Working Committee 2012, on a research on the Legal framework on Citizenship and Religion as it affects National Integration in Nigeria’ commissioned by International Development Law Organisation, Rome, Italy. He also served as Chairman of the Nigerian Bar Association, Ilorin Branch between 2007 and 2009.