A professor of criminology and member of the Presidential Advisory Committee Against Corruption (PACAC), Femi Odekunle, is dead.
He died at the COVID-19 Isolation Center in Gwagwalada, Abuja, Tuesday evening.
The 77-year-old was the Pro-Chancellor of the Federal University of Technology Minna FUT Minna and Nigeria’s first Professor of Criminology.
A graduate of the University of Ibadan in 1968, Odekunle got his PhD in Sociology and Social Psychiatry from the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, United States, in 1974.
He has lectured at the Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria in Kaduna, and other universities.
Meanwhile, President Muhammadu Buhari has expressed shock over the Don’s demise.
The president in a statement issued by his spokesman, Garba Shehu, described Odekunle as a valued friend and a towering intellectual giant with impeccable knowledge of his chosen academic field.
“His death is very saddening. His lasting contributions, as well as his charisma, wit and sense of humour, will be sorely missed by all of us, his friends and associates. May the Almighty repose his soul,” he said.
