The Executive secretary of the National Education Research Development Council, NERDC, Prof. Ismail Junaidu, is dead.
Junaidu reportedly died in early hours of Thursday in Damaturu, Yobe State, where he was attending the Joint Consultative Committee on Education, JCCE, meeting.
Details of his death are unknown as at the time of filing this report.
Meanwhile, his corpse is being conveyed to Katsina for burial, later on Thursday.
