About a year into his captivity by Boko Haram, Professor Abubakar Mohammed El-Jummah, Dean of the Faculty of Engineering and Technology at the Nigerian Army University, Biu, Borno State, has died.
Recall that Boko Haram terrorists abducted the university don along the Damaturu–Buni Yadi–Biu road on March 3, 2025.
He was in his captors’ den where he fell ill and died, as per an X post on Thursday, by a public analyst and friend of El-Jumma, @HAHayatu.
The latter in the tweet said Boko Haram buried the university don on Wednesday and informed his family.
Report added that funeral prayer in absentia (Salatul Ga’ib) was held on Thursday, February 12, 2026, at about 2:00 p.m. at the Ngomari Old Airport Juma’at Mosque, near his residence in Maiduguri metropolis.
