Borno state has lost one of its finest mathematics teachers, Adamu Shaibu, popularly known as Two Brain.
The Principal, Government College, Maiduguri, Ibrahim Joji, told The Nation that Shaibu was unarguably the best Further Mathematics teacher in the state as his students used to make 100 per cent.
Shaibu, who was in his mid-forties, was battling with acute blood pressure problems which he managed till he slumped and died last Saturday.
“I first met him in 1987 and I have known him for over 20 years. As a matter of fact, I encouraged him to enroll for his master’s degree which he was pursing till his death.
“He was nick named two brain because of his dexterity in handling mathematics where he was before I brought him to the government College, Maiduguri.
“As a matter of fact, he was one of those sent to India to study the new KIA projector used by contemporary teachers for instruction in classes. And just when the government imported 500 of the machines for people like him to come train the trainers, he died,” said joji.
Shaibu first studied mathematics at the College of Education Oju before entering the University of Maiduguri where he had a second class upper in Applied Mathemetics.
If there is any regret Joji is going to live with, it is the fact that Shaibu did not write any book on Mathematics before he died.