Kaduna State Governor, Mallam
Nasir Ahmad El-Rufai has announced his resolve to adopt the three children, of
the late Commissioner of Education, Science and Technology, Professor Jonathan
Andrew Nok.
This was also as he said the
state government will sponsor education of the three children of the late
Commissioner up to Phd level.
Governor El-Rufai made the
disclosure at Kaduna Government House on Friday during the valedictory
executive session held in honour of the late Professor Nok.
The Governor also said, that one
of the state’s secondary schools and an health institution would be named after
the Professor who served meritoriously as the state Commissioner for Health and
Human Services and later Commissioner for Education.
Governor El-Rufai who broke down
while speaking about his over 40 years of friendship with the late Professor
and the indelible marks he left behind as a Commissioner, said a campus of the
Kaduna State Polytechnic will be sited in Nok, the home town of the late
Professor Andrew Jonathan Nok.
His colleagues, the Commissioners
and other top government functionaries shed tears as they eulogised the late
Professor.
Born on February 11, 1962 in
Ungwar Rimi, Kaduna, Professor Nok was appointed Commissioner for Health and
Human Services in August 2015. In that office, he pushed the programme to equip
255 primary health centres with tools to save infants and pregnant women.
Following a cabinet reshuffle, he
moved to the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology in 2016, where has
championed the renovation and rehabilitation of schools, the training of
teachers and the provision of better learning aids.
The late commissioner was a
professor of Biochemistry at the Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria. Acknowledged
in the science community for his contributions, Professor Nok won the Alexander
Humboldt prize in 2013 for his research into finding a cure for
trypanosomiasis.
In 2009, he won the NLNG prize
for identifying the gene responsible for the enzyme which causes sleeping
sickness (trypanosomiasis). The Federal Government of Nigeria also honoured him
with the Nigerian National Order of Merit (NNOM).
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