A former Dean of Law Faculty at Ahmadu Bello University (ABU) Zaria, Professor Yusuf Dankofa has passed on, Dateline Nigeria reports.
Prof. Dankofa died in the early hours of Tuesday and his funeral prayer is slated to hold today at the Malali Central Mosque in Kaduna, family sources said.
The deceased was very active on social media, especially Facebook, where he posted on mostly social issues. His last post was a few hours before his death.
His associates, students and other acquaintances have been paying tribute to him on social media.
According to the Nigerian Association of Retired People (NARP) 50plus, Professor Dankofa hailed from Kano State but he was born in Ibadan, Oyo State in 1963.
He had his primary education at Omolewa Nursery and Primary School Oritamefa Ibadan and proceeded to Ahmadiyya Grammar School now Anwar Islam Grammar School, at Eleiyele Ibadan.
He thereafter enrolled at the University of Sokoto, now Usman Danfodio University, where he bagged an LL.B. Hons. in Law in 1987 from where he enrolled at the Nigerian Law School in Lagos, where he earned his BL and was admitted into the Nigerian Bar as a Solicitor and Advocate of the Supreme Court of Nigeria in 1988.
He joined the services of the Faculty of Law at Ahmadu Bello University as an assistant lecturer in 1989 and became a senior lecturer in 2010. In 1993, he bagged his LL.M., degree, and Ph.D. in law from the same Ahmadu Bello University in Zaria.
Professor Dankofa was the Head of the Department of Public Law from 2010 to 2014 and was also the Deputy Dean of Law from 2012 to 2016. He became an Associate Professor of Law in 2013 and a full Professor of Law in 2015.
His passion for social justice led him to write extensively on International Human Rights Law, showing a marked bias for development law as it relates to the rights of indigenous people, self-determination and socio-economic inclusion.
He has written more than 50 articles in peer-reviewed journals and has attended and presented papers in more than 50 local and international conferences. He was married and had children.
