.As Shettima Leads Mourners At Funeral Prayers
A former Minister of Petroleum, Prof. Jubril Aminu is dead. He was aged 85.
He died early today, Thursday, in Abuja.
Prof. Jibrin Aminu was born in August 1939. He graduated in medicine from the University of Ibadan in 1965, and holds a Ph. D in Medicine from the Royal Post-Graduate Medical School.
Aminu as consultant, senior lecturer and sub-dean of Clinical Studies at the University of Ibadan Medical School from 1973 -1975, Executive Secretary of the National Universities Commission, NUC from 1975–1979, visiting Professor of Medicine at Howard University College of Medicine in Washington DC from1979–1980, and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Maiduguri, 1980-1985.
He was also Professor of Medicine at the University of Maiduguri from1979–19Nigerian Ambassador to U.S.A (1999-23) and Senator Representing Adamawa central (2003-07).
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As the Minister of Petroleum, Aminu propagate the participation of indigenous companies in the Exploration and Production of crude oil in Nigeria with the likes of Late Abiola Summit oil and Adenuga’s ConOil Exploration and production company among others.
He was made pioneer patrón of Nigerian Association of Indigenous Petroleum Exploration Companies ( NAIPEC) due to his commitment to indigenous participation in the upstream sector under the Military President Ibrahim Babangida
Vice President Kashim Shettima led other Muslim faithful for the Jana’iza (funeral prayers) of the late elder statesman, renowned medical scholar and former Minister of Education and Petroleum, Prof. Jibril Aminu, at the National Mosque in Abuja.
Prof. Aminu, a one-time President of the African Petroleum Producers’ Organisation (OPEC), passed on in Abuja on Thursday after a prolonged illness.
The Vice President, who arrived at the National Mosque at 1:52 pm, commiserated with the family of the deceased and prayed Allah to comfort them and make Aljanna Firdaus the final abode of the late elder statesman.
Noting that the late Prof Aminu’s demise is a great loss to the nation, VP Shettima described the late surgeon, educationist and administrator as a man who saw it all, just as he said the deceased was an intellectual giant who can hardly be replaced.”
It is a very sad loss. Prof Jubril Aminu was the last of the great titans, an iconic figure who enormously contributed to the development of the nation.
“He was variously the Executive Secretary of NUC, Vice Chancellor of the University of Maiduguri and Honourable Minister of various ministries across the country and left his landmarks on the sands of time.”He is irreplaceable. May Allah grant him Aljanatul Firdaus and give the family the fortitude to bear the irreparable loss. His loss is not just to the good people of Adamawa State but to the nation and Africa at large,” the Vice President prayed
He was born in Song, Adamawa in 1939.
