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Kaduna Commissioner of Education, Andrew Nok is dead
Kaduna Commissioner of Education, Andrew Nok dies at 55.
The Kaduna State commissioner of education, Andrew Nok, has passed away.
He died at the age of 55.
Details surrounding the commissioner’s death were sketchy.
Nok, a graduate Biochemistry graduate of Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, was born at Nok village in Jaba local government of Kaduna state.
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He won Nigeria’s highest academic honour, the Nigerian National Order of Merit, NNOM, in the science category, in 2010.
He was also the 2013 winner of the Alexander von Humboldt prize for science.