Professor Abubakar Mohammed El-Jummah, Dean of Engineering at the Nigerian Army University, Biu, has died in Boko Haram captivity after nearly a year in detention, with a funeral prayer in absentia held in Maiduguri.
Professor Abubakar Mohammed El-Jummah, Dean of the Faculty of Engineering and Technology at the Nigerian Army University, Biu, Borno State, has died while in the custody of Boko Haram militants after spending close to a year in captivity. The academic was abducted on March 3, 2025, along the Damaturu–Buni Yadi–Biu road and remained in captivity until he reportedly fell ill and died. Sources said news of his death was communicated to his traumatised family on Wednesday in Maiduguri.
A family member, who declined to be named, told Vanguard that “the late professor had been in Boko Haram captivity from March 2, 2025, until his death. May Allah forgive him and grant him mercy.” The source declined to comment on whether any ransom was demanded by the terrorists during the period of his captivity.
Vanguard gathered that a 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. The prayer session attracted many sympathisers, academics and friends of the late professor.
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