Nigerian University Professor & First Female Editor from the North Among the Dead in Hajj Stampede (Photos)

 

Hajiya Bilkisu Yusuf, the first female editor from Northern Nigeria, and a prominent academic, Prof. Tijjani Almiskin, a professor of Islamic Studies at the University of Maiduguri, Borno State, are among the 717 persons confirmed dead in the Saudi Arabia Hajj stampede.

 

Hajiya Yusuf was a journalist by profession and a political scientist by training. Her previous work experience includes working in the Ministry of Information, Kano; Editor of Sunday Triumph, Kano; Editor of New Nigerian, Kaduna, and Editor of Citizen Magazine, Kaduna.

 

She was also a columnist for Daily Trust and LEADERSHIP newspapers. She was a founding member of several NGOs, including Women In Nigeria (WIN), the Federation of Muslim Women Associations in Nigeria (FOMWAN), and Advocacy Nigeria, where she was the executive director.

 

Another prominent Nigerian casualty in the Saudi stampede is Prof. Tijjani Almiskin, a professor of Islamic Studies at the University of Maiduguri, Borno State, and one-time head of the University of Maiduguri Arabic Village in Gamboru where students of Arabic go for special training.