THE Deputy General Secretary of the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU), Esther Ezeama, was killed in a car accident yesterday.
The accident occurred while she was driving to the 45th Executive Council (SSANU) meeting, which was held yesterday at the University of Maiduguri.
The National President of the association, Comrade Mohammed Haruna Ibrahim, said Esther lost her life in a vehicle conveying the SSANU national secretariat staff about 24 kilometers to Bauchi town, Bauchi State.
Ibrahim, who characterized her as humble, humane, versatile, and diligent, said her death is a big loss to the association and her family.
“She just retired from the University of Jos as director advancement and is a lady who could speak three foreign languages outside of speaking the lingua-franca of Hausa, Yoruba and Igbo”.
He prayed to God to give the family fortitude to bear the irreparable death.
