{"id":37751,"date":"2015-04-13T21:42:41","date_gmt":"2015-04-13T20:42:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=37751"},"modified":"2015-04-14T04:32:33","modified_gmt":"2015-04-14T03:32:33","slug":"professor-tamuno-was-a-remarkable-historian-buhari","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/professor-tamuno-was-a-remarkable-historian-buhari\/","title":{"rendered":"Professor Tamuno was a remarkable Historian &#8211; Buhari"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1428956944135_5670\" class=\"base-card-body\" style=\"color: #000000;\">\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1428956944135_5597\" class=\"msg-body inner  undoreset\" tabindex=\"0\">\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1428956944135_5669\" class=\"email-wrapped\">\n<div id=\"yiv3726077814\">\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1428956944135_5668\">\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1428956944135_5679\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1428956944135_5678\">\n<div id=\"yiv3726077814yqt55274\" class=\"yiv3726077814yqt5653709513\">\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1428956944135_5685\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1428956944135_5682\" style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Daura, Katsina, Nigeria, 13 April 2015:<\/strong>\u00a0President-elect, General Muhammadu Buhari, has expressed condolences with the family of Professor Tekene Tamuno, a historian and former Vice Chancellor of the University of Ibadan, who passed away on April 11, 2015, at the age of 83.<\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1428956944135_5677\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1428956944135_5680\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1428956944135_5681\">In a statement released on Monday, April 13, General Buhari described Professor Tamuno as an irreplaceable national asset with an unrivaled knowledge and understanding of Nigeria&#8217;s history, which the late professor showcased in a number of books published over the past decades since Nigeria&#8217;s independence.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8220;Professor Tamuno was a remarkable historian, who combined a career as a seasoned educationist with that of effective administration,&#8221; General Buhari said.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The late professor, who hails from Okrika, Rivers State,\u00a0studied history at the University of Ibadan before leaving the country in 1960 to continue his studies at the University of London, and Columbia University. In 1962 he joined the Department of History at the University of Ibadan where he remained, until his death, as Professor Emeritus. He was also a former president of the distinguished Nigerian Academy of Letters.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1428956944135_5693\">General Buhari further described Professor Tamuno&#8217;s death as a great loss to Nigeria, but added that the late academic had left a worthy part of himself behind.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8220;Thankfully, we will continue to have with us, the several books which Professor Tamuno authored,&#8221; General Buhari said. &#8220;He may have passed on but the fruits of his exceptional life remain behind for generations of Nigerians to benefit from.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><strong style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Signed:<\/strong><\/div>\n<div><strong style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Garba Shehu<\/strong><\/div>\n<div><strong style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Daura, Katsina<\/strong><\/div>\n<div><strong style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Nigeria<\/strong><\/div>\n<div><strong style=\"font-weight: bold;\">13 April 2015<br clear=\"none\" \/><\/strong><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"base-card-clear\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Daura, Katsina, Nigeria, 13 April 2015:\u00a0President-elect, General Muhammadu Buhari, has expressed condolences with the family of Professor Tekene Tamuno, a historian and former Vice Chancellor of the University of Ibadan,&hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":37761,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Professor Tamuno was a remarkable Historian - Buhari - Pointblank News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/professor-tamuno-was-a-remarkable-historian-buhari\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Professor Tamuno was a remarkable Historian - Buhari - Pointblank News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Daura, Katsina, Nigeria, 13 April 2015:\u00a0President-elect, General Muhammadu Buhari, has expressed condolences with the family of Professor Tekene Tamuno, a historian and former Vice Chancellor of the University of Ibadan,&hellip;\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/professor-tamuno-was-a-remarkable-historian-buhari\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Pointblank News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2015-04-13T20:42:41+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2015-04-14T03:32:33+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Tamuno.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"750\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"400\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Our Reporter\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Our Reporter\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/professor-tamuno-was-a-remarkable-historian-buhari\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/professor-tamuno-was-a-remarkable-historian-buhari\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Our Reporter\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/#\/schema\/person\/ba61acbe7e8967bcf3f3ba603d9db23c\"},\"headline\":\"Professor Tamuno was a remarkable Historian &#8211; 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