By Muhammad Maitela, Damaturu
In a statement issue by Secretary of Fika Emirate Potiskum, Malam Ali Gimba the death of former SGF, Dr. Adamu Fika CFR, in Kaduna.
The announcement said that, the funeral prayers held yesterday by 4:00am at Sultan Bello Mosque Kaduna.
Mallam Adamu Fika the Waziri of Fika is a well renowned and seasoned Educationist and Administrator, a native of Fika, Yobe State born in 1933 in Fika, Yobe State.
Dr. Fika is the first and only Nigeria’s Head of Service to resign because he was not comfortable being at the helm of affairs when by his training, he perceived the civil service was being destroyed.
He attended Fika Elementary School, 1941-45; Borno Middle School, Maiduguri, 1947 for his primary education, Kaduna Government College (now Barewa College, Zaria), 1948 – 1951; Nigerian College of Arts, Science and Technology, Zaria, 1952-53; Institute of Statisticians, London, UK, 1958; Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, Brighton, England, August-December, 1969; Royal Institute of Public Administration, University of Manchester, UK, 1978.
He was appointed a Mathematics and Physics Teacher, in his alma mater Barewa College, Zaria in 1956.
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