Prof. Jibrin Aminu, Nigeria’s foremost cardiologist and politician, is dead. Prof. Aminu reportedly died after protracted illness in Abuja.
From Adamawa State, Prof. Aminu was a former Vice Chancellor of the University of Maiduguri.
During his illustrious career, he served as Minister of Education and later as Minister of Petroleum and Mineral Resources between 1989 and 1992.
He was also at a time the President of OPEC.
He was Nigeria’s Ambassador to the United States from 1999 to 2003 and represented Adamawa Central in the Senate from 2003 to 2011.
